“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 ...

There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries and author’s margins to give context to their passages. There is one ...

This year marks the centennial of two landmarks of modernity: World War I and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.” Both events have their origins in 1914, but neither ever truly ended: Upon his death in 1924, ...

Comparing a film to a fever dream is the hoariest of critical clichés (it’s right up there with calling something Kafkaesque), but some clichés have a basis in fact. The first time I watched Orson ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man behind bars – Franz Kafka (1924). Public domain. Background image: Shutterstock “A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to ...