Franz Kafka, Author, read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6 Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major ...

Franz Kafka is one of the most celebrated and prominent writers from the 20th century whose strings explore a wide theme of psychological aspects like existential crisis. Explore here some of the best ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...

Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40. In the 100 years since, his literary reputation has soared, nearly every scrap he ever scribbled has been published, and his life and works have ...

The fiction in this week’s issue, “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” is a series of very short pieces by Franz Kafka that will appear this fall in the New Directions book “The Lost Writings.” ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

An admirer of Franz Kafka’s once presented him with a specially bound volume of three of his stories. Kafka’s reaction was vehement: “My scribbling … is nothing more than my own materialization of ...

We read for many reasons: to learn, to escape, to fill quiet moments. But rarely do we stop and ask what a book should truly do to us. Franz Kafka had a clear answer. Most of us read for comfort, for ...