On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

Franz Kafka’s passport photograph c.1915. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Joseph K.’s grisly fate plays out in an anonymised city, most likely derived from Kafka’s home of Prague.

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 ...

Franz Kafka published little during his life and shared the manuscripts of his novels and short stories mostly with confidants in his literary “Prague Circle.” After contracting tuberculosis, Kafka ...

And now, visitors to “Franz Kafka,” an exhibit currently on display at the Morgan Library and Museum in Midtown, have the opportunity to view some of Kafka’s original Hebrew writings.

From Franz Kafka’s 100-page ‘Letter to His Father,’ part of the National Library exhibit ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author,’ December 2024-June 2025 ( (Photo by Ardon Bar-Hama) ...

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 ...

Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka grew up to be one of the world's most well known German-language authors, even to this day. He is famous for his works that fuse elements such as realism and ...

75 Franz Kafka Quotes 1. “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” 2. “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.” 3. “All language is but a poor translation ...