Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language ... from his family and suffered throughout his life at the hands of his father in particular, who would have preferred his son to be a ...

Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...

Dora Diamant, Kafka's partner for the last year of his baroquely ... and the literal big father, Mr. Hermann Kafka, who made so much noise in the family apartment that it drove Franz into fits ...

Kafka’s father, Hermann, had been running his shop and warehouses on the ground floor of the House of the Three Kings (sometimes called U Tří královen (House of the Three Queens)) since 1887. It still ...

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to ... more colourful literary panorama beyond the father complex and guilt-and-punishment ...