A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

Self Portrait – Franz Kafka (c.1911). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dialectic of unenlightenment Part of the dramatic brilliance of The Trial is the way Kafka brings all of this deferral ...

Kafka was a perfectionist who ... Another is titled “What Greta Suffered from her Husband Franz”. The Trial is full of such absurd humour, trompe l’oeil effects, and manipulations of ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” an allegorical story of modern oppressive ...

Andy Warhol, "Franz Kafka" (1980) (courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery ... Josef K’s last words as he’s stabbed at the end of The Trial (1914–15), bringing his bureaucratic nightmare to its ...