Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'I am free and that is why I am...' - Known for his nightmarish literary style 'Kafkaesque'

Franz Kafka, a Prague-born writer, navigated a challenging upbringing and a demanding day job while pursuing his passion for ...
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Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, TV miniseries shows

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century... Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, ...
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Agnieszka Holland on Bringing Kafka Back to Life With ‘Playful’ Biopic ‘Franz’: ‘I Don’t Like the Cliché of Kafka Being Dark, Moody and Depressed’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Agnieszka Holland, the director of Oscar nominated films like “Angry Harvest,” “Europa Europa” and “In Darkness,” set out to ...
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Punishment in search of a crime – Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man behind bars – Franz Kafka (1924). Public domain. Background image: Shutterstock “A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to ...
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The Private Franz Kafka

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his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...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 New Criterion

Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmühle

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. When Kafka began drafting The Castle on the very day of his arrival in Spindelmühle, it was the first sustained ...
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: What now?

“Would you still love me if I were a worm?” No, absolutely not. That is, at least, what The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka suggests. It is a question that may sound absurd but carries deeper ...
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On Franz Kafka’s Birthday, Looking Through Lens of his Sexuality

If ever there was an author whose works resisted analysis, it’s Franz Kafka. What does it mean, after all, that Gregor Samsa wakes up in “The Metamorphosis” and finds himself turned into a bug? In ...

A Novel About Women Who Trade One Kind of Captivity for Another

In Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things, a group of captive women discover who they might become beyond the control of ...
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Agnieszka Holland on Kafka Drama ‘Franz’

Newcomer Idan Weiss stars as the iconic Czech writer in the new biopic from the director of 'Green Border' and 'In Darkness' that premiered at Toronto. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Her ...
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'Kafka: The Early Years' Unlocks The Mind That Dragged Literature Into The Modern Era

The best thing a biographer of Franz Kafka can do is bring the famed author back to earth. Not as regards his reputation, which is justifiably lofty. But to humanize Kafka and save him from our ...