One blue house stood out—Franz Kafka, Prague’s literary icon, briefly lived here with his sister. Today, the house functions as a souvenir and book shop, but I found myself imagining Kafka ...

But for the slightly less cultured who are unfamiliar with the opera, it’s just another one of Prague’s disturbingly amusing pieces of public art. The Franz Kafka statue in Prague puts art in ...

Kafka from the angle of his family in Prague. Separate chapters filter Kafka as seen by Felice Bauer, Milena Jesenská and Dora Diamant, the three most important romantic relationships in his life.

Prague feels like something out of a storybook ... Then stroll past the charming miniature houses of Golden Lane (Franz Kafka lived in number 22). It’s also worth hunting around a bit for ...

There are numerous mentions of what Kafka had seen at the movies. Prague-born Franz Kafka (1883–1924) experienced the emergence of the cinematograph and was fascinated by the very first early films.

I mean, Einstein was an out-of-work assistant professor struggling to save his family, and he got an offer for a big pay raise to go to Prague in 1911, and Kafka happened to be there, working in ...

On the whole, Ozick is right. Kafka couldn’t have avoided his Jewish parochialism had he wanted to, which he didn’t. The bourgeois Jewish Prague he was born into aspired to assimilation but ...

A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer ...

Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...

Franz Kafka published little during his life and shared the manuscripts of his novels and short stories mostly with confidants in his literary “Prague Circle.” After contracting tuberculosis, Kafka ...