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Franz Kafka

July 2024

  • Franz Kafka in 1917.

    Book of the day
    Kafka: Selected Stories, edited by Mark Harman review – the master who never wasted a word

    A Franz Kafka scholar’s perceptive annotation and translation highlights every subtle shade of humour and brilliant aphorism in these singular tales

June 2024

  • Glyndebourne opera house

    The Guardian view on culture: fight for the arts in our era of austerity

  • Playing Kafka video game screenshot

    Playing Kafka review – a well-intentioned but sanitised attempt at adapting the unadaptable

  • The Head of Franz Kafka, at the Quadrio shopping mall in Prague

    Franz Kafka’s Prague: a centenary tour of the writer’s home city

  • A flatlay of the letter and the airmail envelope Ehrenstein later send it in to the artist Dolly Perutz.

    Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

  • A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

    Rachel Cooke

  • Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

May 2024

  • Franz Kafka in Prague, circa 1910

    Observer book of the week
    Metamorphoses by Karolina Watroba; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Diaries review – Franz Kafka as more than just a prophet of malaise

  • Franz Kafka.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Franz Kafka

  • Franz Kafka played by Joel Basman in Episode 4 of the new six part TV series.

    Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

  • Photo of Franz Kafka on his grave at the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague.

    What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries

April 2024

  • Portrait Franz Kafka

    Book of the day
    Diaries by Franz Kafka review – caught in the act

    His uncensored journals disclose a messier, more sexual, complex figure – and reveal much about the process of writing

March 2024

  • Franz Kafka.

    Franz Kafka’s dour image hid a much lighter side, a new exhibition reveals

    Artefacts on display in Oxford next month show the ‘humorous insights’ of a writer best known for his nightmarish stories

February 2024

  • Laura Donnelly's character sits at the piano talking to the younger sisters

    The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

    Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

October 2023

  • Caveman … a man stands next to a representation of Plato’s cave on the facade of the Opéra Garnier in Paris.

    Top 10s
    The top 10 allegories in fiction, from Plato to Kafka

    Authors from Jonathan Swift to NoViolet Bulawayo show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

September 2023

  • Less like a play than an art installation … L to r, Troy Glasgow (Mr Samsa), Felipe Pacheco (Gregor) and Joe Layton (Chief Clerk) in Metamorphosis.

    Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic

  • Chat GPT graphic

    Ignorance is not bliss for ChatGPT

August 2023

  • Flying foxes fly en masse over a house in Gympie, Queensland

    The world’s great literature has captured the uncanny – but Australian suburbia is uniquely spooky

    Chris Womersley
    You won’t find that feeling in faraway lands. It’s here between the city and the bush, not quite one thing or the other
  • Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer.<br>PG659B Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer.

    Martin Walser obituary

    Journalist, writer and novelist who played a controversial role in the cultural life of postwar Germany
  • John Storgårds conducts James Ehnes and the BBC Philharmonic in Walton’s Violin Concerto.

    Prom 26: BBCPhil/Storgårds review – Barry takes us inside Kafka’s head

    Gerald Barry’s deliberately muted new work, Kafka’s Earplugs, failed to make an impact in this venue, while James Ehnes was a deft and impressive soloist in Walton’s violin concerto
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