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‘Kafka’ Review: On ChaiFlicks, the Man Behind ‘The Metamorphosis’
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoTELEVISION REVIEW Was Max Brod the Judas Iscariot of 20th-century literature? The wily, six-part...
Hidden in Kafka’s Castle
Acton Commentary· 3 days agoShould we blame Max Brod? Brod was almost certainly the nearest thing Franz Kafka ever had to a friend, and in time Kafka appointed him his literary...
A century after his death Franz Kafka is still in the zeitgeist
The Economist· 7 days agoFranz Kafka was not a social person: he spent much of his time alone, trying, and often failing, to...
In Moving Kafka Beyond the Page, a Television Series Succeeds Where the Likes of Orson Welles Have...
The New York Sun· 2 days agoHere’s a prediction: Critics will twist themselves into knots while trying to spin the adjective...
Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLike Franz Kafka himself, this is an exhibition with two very different faces. One is a...
Stop Trying to Understand Kafka
The Atlantic· 2 days agoThe rabbis of the Talmud taught in parables, fanciful tales meant to illustrate moral principles. To what may a parable be compared? With just one modest anecdote, you may fathom the Torah!
Wes Anderson meets Franz Kafka in a new streaming series
The Forward· 6 days agoIt is perhaps best, in the case of Franz Kafka, history’s most famous insurance clerk, to review his...
Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant...
The Conversation· 6 days agoThroughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka ...
Kafka 100: a parade of men with no appetite from a writer consumed by thoughts of nourishment
The Conversation· 3 days agoThere is a rather potent image of failure which recurs in the short stories and novels of Franz Kafka, the Czech writer who died of tuberculosis 100 years ago. You can find it in The Trial ( ...