Delve into Franz Kafka's books and literary works, exploring themes of existentialism, alienation, and absurdity. Discover the genius behind modern classics.

Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi ... Fearing that an illustrator might propose to draw Gregor, Kafka wrote to his publisher, “Not that, please not that! … The insect itself cannot be depicted.

The celebrated author of “The Metamorphosis” had a lifelong interest in Jewish ideas, especially Yiddish theater. (JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his ...

Kafka's mystifying and mesmerizing novella comes to hilarious and haunting musical life onstage. Gregor's rude awakening and metamorphosis parallels the journey of our dauntless narrator ...

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” Thus begins the most well known novella of the twentieth century, Die Verwandlung ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...

Knowing the game had to end, however, drove Kafka miserable (sounds like our Franz); therefore ... biography of the vermin formerly known as Gregor Samsa, also composed at a feverish clip.

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 ...

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is widely accepted ... If Kafka’s leading man Gregor Samsa was surprised to wake up as an insect, he probably had nothing on Lot’s wife when the Old Testament ...