The heir to Franz Kafka’s papers says she is under “Kafkaesque” pressure to release them, The New York Times reported this morning. Hava Hoffe, a 74-year-old resident of Tel Aviv, is the daughter of ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Franz Kafka’s final wish before his death in 1924 — that his papers be burned — was famously defied by his friend, the writer Max Brod. The world got “The Trial,” “The Castle” and ...

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Tuesday handed over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from one of the author’s surreal ...

Perhaps no one defied the wishes of a dead friend as flagrantly as Max Brod. In 1924, the author Franz Kafka died after a years-long battle with tuberculosis, leaving Brod, his confidant and fellow ...