Writers: Franz Kafka

An online guide to the life and work of Franz Kafka

There is a point of no return. This point has to be reached.

Franz Kafka, Zürau Aphorisms

Literature

Judith Butler on Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, Sleep and Transformation
Kafka Safety Deposit Boxes to be opened
Franz Kafka, The Trial (Folio Society)
McCrum on Kafka's Manuscripts
Franz Kafka, A Message From the Emperor
Kafka Legal Battle Continues
Smarten up with surrealism
Kafka's Manuscripts on Trial
Franz Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms
Franz Kafka's The Trial
Kafka's Unseen Papers
Michael Foley's Top Ten Absurd Classics

Philosophy and Interpretation

'At last I understand Kafka'
Maurice Blanchot on Kafka
How to read Kafka
Giorgio Agamben on Kafka and The Trial

Writers on Kafka

Samuel Beckett on Franz Kafka
J. G. Ballard's Top Ten Writers
Philip Roth on Kafka and the Holocaust
Banville: Franz Kafka's other trial
W. H. Auden on Franz Kafka

Biography

Introducing... Franz Kafka
From the desk of Franz Kafka
Daily Routines of Writers and Philosophers
Writers' Autographs

Academic Conferences

Franz Kafka and Philosophy Workshop: 2010

Theatre

Kafka's The Trial at the Edinburgh Festival
Shiberhur adapt Kafka's In the Penal Colony
Kafka's Metamorphosis as Dance Theatre

Film and Television

Kafka's influence on Michael Haneke
Kafka's Metamorphosis to be Filmed

Etc.

Happy Birthday, Franz Kafka
Mendelsund on Kafka as 'countercultural hero'
Literary Rags: Writer and Philosopher T-Shirts
The Next Village Project
'What we both strove after...'
Keeping a diary
Kafka on Etsy
Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka