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 ...

It was in Prague in the ’20s that Franz Kafka wrote his chilling allegories of men condemned to lingering deaths by a malevolent bureaucracy. “People didn’t understand him 25 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...