Less than two months later, Brod, disregarding Kafka’s request, signed an agreement to prepare a posthumous edition of Kafka’s unpublished novels. “The Trial” came out in 1925, followed by ...

Kafka famously demanded that his life-long friend Max Brod burn all his papers when he died, in 1924. Instead, Brod published many of Kafka's works posthumously, enshrining his reputation as one ...

Brod is primarily known as Franz Kafka's friend, mentor and biographer. It wasn't until Brod posthumously published the novels "The Trial" and "The Castle" in the 1920s that Kafka became world famous.

Fast-forward to the early 21st century, which is when most of the action of Kafka’s Last Trial takes place. Esther Hoffe, then around 100, was living on Spinoza Street (another Kafkaesque touch ...

The diffident Kafka “wouldn’t last a day” in modern Israel, quipped one observer. Still, the state library fought to possess his papers.

Tsikurishvili’s production of Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, which was published posthumously in 1925, is a case in point. The play recently concluded its run at Synetic, ...