Max Brod (left), a recognized writer at the time, relentlessly promoted the writings of his friend, Franz Kafka, played here respectively by David Kross and Joel Basman in the Austrian-German series ...

Definition of KAFKAESQUE (Merriam-Webster): of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings; especially : having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. Kafka's genius ...

A hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, two new books testify to his enduring appeal and make the case for reading him afresh. Mark Harman’s translation, Selected Stories, returns to the spikiness ...

Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, ...

Franz Kafka has entered our language as an adjective — “Kafkaesque” is applied nowadays to almost anything that strikes us as senseless or surreal — but the man himself remains obscure. Saul ...

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