Photograph of Kafka c. 1906, around the time he obtained his Doctor of Law degree from the Charles University in Prague - The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Like Franz Kafka himself, this is ...

Franz Kafka’s nightmarish, absurdist oeuvre was so astonishingly strange and distinctive that it has given us an adjective: “kafkaesque”. Find out what Kafka’s work might mean for us now, in an age of ...

Kafka's genius as a writer of fiction has sometimes come close to being eclipsed by his richly documented genius for unhappiness. His frequently anguished letters and diaries are much bulkier than the ...

Kafka in June 1921 with guests and staff of a sanatorium in Tatranské-Matliare, one of many he visited for his pulmonary condition Credit: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The icon, though, ...