It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish ...
“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point ...
Franz Kafka’s The Trial revolves around a surrealistic legal procedure governed by a nontransparent logic. At times it seems a criticism of what scholars call “legal indeterminacy,” that is, the ...
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1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights Based on the Franz Kafka's legendary novel written between 1914-1915, The Trial incorporates both historical anxieties of a ...
Who owns Franz Kafka? More specifically, who owns the yellowing papers in his trademark loopy scrawl, those writings that sometimes came out of him “like a birth?” Is it a little old lady named Eva ...
Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...
You published a review written by Alexander Kafka of the play Mirandolina as performed by Classika Theatre (“Commedia of Errors,” 3/2). Because the “review” was written in such an ugly, mendacious, ...