Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...

Kafka grew up in the shadow of his domineering father, Hermann, a clothing retailer who had moved from his native shtetl to Prague, and was eager to acculturate into secular urban life.

That person was his father, Hermann Kafka, a successful Prague businessman and a domestic tyrant of epic proportions. The 100-page letter took Kafka two months to complete. It was “a lawyer’s letter,” ...

The only time his father had a word of praise for him, wrote Kafka, was when "I was able to eat heartily or even drink beer with my meals." (Kafka handed this letter to his mother, who returned it ...

Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic “Franz,” which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival, has debuted its ...

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By Andrew Lapin 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 ...

Kafka, the author of “The Metamorphosis,” wrote his missive (published in English as “Letter to His Father”) in 1919, when he was 36, but did not send it.

The Czech writer Franz Kafka posing before Kinsky Palace on the square of the old town in Prague, Czech Republic, where his father held a shop, around 1896-1906.