This subjective list represents five of Kafka’s most celebrated works, considering their critical acclaim, literary importance and influence on generations of writers and readers. 5. The ...
Evan Parks is a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Center for the Humanities and Director of Education for the Bronfman Fellowship. His research treats modern German literature and culture, the ...
In communist Prague, Kafka was banned. Something similar happened ... Czech capital offered up to its great writer. The Museum of Literature devoted barely a corner of one of its large halls ...
It offers a profound look at one of contemporary literature’s most significant figures. Kafka was born in 1883 into a middle-class family of German Jews in Prague. Today he is celebrated as one ...
Unlike the multiple prizewinners in this anthology, Kafka had little literary success in his lifetime, dying aged 40. It took many years (and the devoted services of his friend and literary ...
As the then incurable and painful disease made his demise inevitable, Kafka entrusted his good friend Max Brod (1884-1968) to be his literary executor. The two had met at 1902 when they were ...