In its opening sentences, the novel’s premise is established with lightning speed. One workday morning, K wakes up to find ...

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

For Harman, translation is not merely a mechanical process of matching words, but an effort to breathe life into the ...

In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach. Andy Warhol, "Franz Kafka" (1980) (courtesy Ronald Feldman ...

This led me to remembering the Franz Kafka short story titled ‘ The Village schoolmaster or The Giant Mole’. It’s such a mysterious story which Kafka approaches with his characteristic methodical ...

How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?” Franz Kafka’s famous fictional character, Josef K, asks the two men who show up at his apartment early one morning.

When Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague recently, its title was changed to Who’s Afraid of Franz Kafka? The switch was significant. Not only did it mark Czech ...

“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.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice ...