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David Lynch was greatly inspired by Franz Kafka, whose story 'The Metamorphosis' was a huge influence on his 1978 debut ...
Reading Franz Kafka can be quite a task, especially after hearing all about it over bookstagram and booktok. Here is a guide that can help you take a deep dive into the psyche of the writer and ...
Just as Franz Kafka’s prose both demands and evades interpretation, something about his legacy has both solicited and resisted claims of ownership. Despite his astonishing clairvoyance about the ...
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On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman. A distinguished ...
In a scene from the new miniseries “Kafka,” when a Yiddish theater troupe from Eastern Europe tours Prague, the titular character Franz Kafka is among the audience. The Czech Jewish literary ...
Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...
Fathers teach by example and by instruction—example, mostly. A father’s love is encrypted. Let us break the code. Becoming a ...
The financier John Pierpont Morgan and the writer Franz Kafka appear at first blush to be an odd pair. The titan of finance from Hartford was a modern Midas. The Jewish writer from Prague died young ...
When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...
There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries and author’s margins to give context to their passages. There is one ...