“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 ...

Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language ... Kafka wrote in the evenings and at night: diaries, short stories and novels. His best friend, Max Brod, whom he had met while studying ...

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, where he spent most of his life. From 1889 to 1893, he attended the "German Boys' School" there, followed by the so-called ...

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 ...

House at the Tower, Franz Kafka Square 3 | Photo: Petr Machan ... All three of Kafka’s sisters were born in short succession in the house, whose name comes from the Italian “al minuto” (small goods ...

TheatreInSearch is thrilled to announce its current production, "The Confessions of Red Peter," based on Franz Kafka" short story "A Report to an Academy" Adapted and Directed by George Charbak, the ...

White used Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist,” a 1922 short story about alienation, art and the human condition, to finish his adaptation of “Amerika.” “It’s about immigration, but I think it ...