Editor’s Note: Franz Kafka was born on this day, July 3, 1883. Anne Roiphe examines the prescience of the author’s “Metamorphosis.” ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

When the Franz Kafka exhibit opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in November 2024 it marked two important centennial milestones: the opening of the Morgan Library and the anniversary of Kafka’s ...

‘My penchant for portraying my dreamlike inner life has rendered everything else inconsequential.” So Franz Kafka described himself in his diary. In “Kafka: The Early Years,” German biographer Reiner ...

Speaking of Lolita, Christopher Plummer as Nabokov himself, lecturing a college classroom on Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis: "There must be in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in ...

In 1914, agitated by his friends’ insistence that he become involved in the Zionist movement, Franz Kafka wrote in his diaries, “what have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with ...

Before there was “Maus,” there were the “Mouse Folk.” Or, more precisely, fifty-six years before Art Spiegelman drew Jews as mice in his family memoir, Franz Kafka played with the associations between ...

In Synetic Theater’s production of Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” the set is far more than a place where the action happens. It’s a visual statement of the bizarre, illogical universe that Kafka ...

(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew teacher and once encountered the owner of a brothel he frequented in synagogue on Yom Kippur. The broad strokes of ...