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.” ...

Among the audience was a 26-year-old insurance salesman named Franz Kafka, who had been dragged there at the insistence of his friend Max Brod. Brod would later make an indelible mark on world ...

A century after Kafka’s death, Mark Harman’s annotated translation redefines our understanding of the literary icon’s ...

South Koreans are Kafka fans, fascinated by his work. Without Max Brod there would be no Franz Kafka. While the sheet with the fever curve and the medical record are kept in a glass case (Kafka, who ...

Please recommend a book in which we can admire Kafka's paintings. Kafka left behind a series of drawings, which were made known through his friend Max Brod. Brod, who also published Kafka's posthumous ...

After Franz Kafka's passing, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts with explicit instructions for his close friend Max Brod to destroy them. Despite Kafka's wishes, Brod chose to ...

We would not even have the novels if not for the intervention of Kafka’s close friend and literary executor Max Brod. Thankfully, Brod ignored Kafka’s instructions to destroy his manuscripts ...