In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is actually ...

Where do they come from, these dark dreams in narrative? What explains them — what distinctive features in the background of their creator, Franz Kafka, what tensions within his society or family, ...

To mark the Kafka Year 2024, the Goethe-Institut Ethiopia, together with the Austrian Embassy, is showing a poster exhibition "Komplett Kafka" based on the comic biography by Nicolas Mahler about the ...

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. WHEN Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” appeared posthumously in the 1920s, the German satirist and critic ...

The story is well known: the frail, anxiety-ridden young man in Prague who suffers under an overbearing, uncouth father. Every day he trudges off to his boring job at an insurance company. He is drawn ...

The celebrated author of “The Metamorphosis” had a lifelong interest in Jewish ideas, especially Yiddish theater. (JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Reiner Stach, in Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds, a book he wrote in the margins of his magnificent three-volume Kafka biography, has collated ...

If nothing else, “Franz” gets the handwriting right. Sure, praising someone’s calligraphy is the quintessential backhanded compliment, but when it comes to Kafka, the penmanship is important. The ...

BiographyDora Diamant was Franz Kafka's mistress - an unenviable role, one might think, rather like being Naomi Campbell's maid or the Duke of Edinburgh's wife. It is hard to imagine that there was ...

All these different elements are presented in detail and probed with subtle, forensic care in Kafka: The Early Years, the first volume of Reiner Stach’s three-part biography, which, by a suitable ...