Franz Kafka, Author, read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6 Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major ...

Translating Kafka could be deeply affecting. Primo Levi once described emerging from the task “as if from an illness.” ...

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...

The cover of Francis Levy’s collection of oddball tales of contemporary living depicts a drawing of the back of a nondescript character calmly looking at a huge colored circle of a cockroach. It’s a ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40. In the 100 years since, his literary reputation has soared, nearly every scrap he ever scribbled has been published, and his life and works have ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

A long overdue new translation of an authoritative German language edition of Franz Kafka’s diaries that appeared in 1990 offers welcome insight into the Bohemian novelist’s evolving concepts of ...

The fiction in this week’s issue, “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” is a series of very short pieces by Franz Kafka that will appear this fall in the New Directions book “The Lost Writings.” ...

“The fact that Kafka the artist has played a distinctly subordinate role to Kafka the writer in our historical consciousness is attributable at least in part to our inadequate image of him,” argues ...