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.” ...

Self Portrait – Franz Kafka (c.1911). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dialectic of unenlightenment Part of the dramatic brilliance of The Trial is the way Kafka brings all of this deferral ...

They found Kafka’s worldview so powerful that they ... Another is titled “What Greta Suffered from her Husband Franz”. The Trial is full of such absurd humour, trompe l’oeil effects ...

“You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary,” wrote Franz Kafka. “The Trial” follows a man named Joseph K., who is arrested on the morning of his 30th ...

Kafka was a perfectionist who ... Another is titled “What Greta Suffered from her Husband Franz”. The Trial is full of such absurd humour, trompe l’oeil effects, and manipulations of ...

Some of the nicest people I know have schizoid PD and are silently suffering the aftereffects of an abusive childhood that ...

Holly Martins, an author of pulp fiction, arrives in Vienna in search of his childhood friend, Harry Lime, accidentally ...

As she returns to the stage this summer for the National Theatre's long-anticipated Inter Alia, the multi-faceted actress ...

is precisely the situation described in Franz Kafka’s "The Trial," in which carelessness, bureaucratic incompetence and impenetrable legalism are just as damaging as outright cruelty.