Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” an allegorical story of modern oppressive ...

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.” ...

Thankfully, Brod ignored Kafka’s instructions to destroy his manuscripts after his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 40 in 1924. The Trial was the first of the novels to be ...

It is a modifier that has become as famous as Kafka himself. The Trial was written over the period 1914-15, when Kafka was in his early 30s. Like his two other novels – Amerika (alternatively ...