Franz Kafka, a renowned writer, penned a powerful quote. It suggests that the human desire to live surpasses rigid logic.

No one could possibly have a crappier day than Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has transformed into a beetle and spends the rest of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” reconciling his new body ...

It has become fashionable of late to claim that Franz Kafka is overrated as an author, even though his slender body of work stands as one of the most influential of the 20th century. Indeed, his ...

As literature nerds awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, they found themselves transformed into the probable recipients of a trove of Franz Kafka’s writing. This was no dream. Comparing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 100 years after the death of Franz Kafka, a new mini-series aims to dive beneath the surface of an author who remains enigmatic ...

Editor’s Note: Franz Kafka was born on this day, July 3, 1883. Anne Roiphe examines the prescience of the author’s “Metamorphosis.” ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found ...

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Video games aren’t exactly synonymous with classic literature. Players will find references to works like “Romeo and Juliet”, but developers don’t often tackle novels like “As I Lay Dying” or “Don ...

David Cronenberg begins his introduction to Susan Bernofsky’s new translation of “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka (W.W. Norton: 126 pp., $10.95 paper) by raising an unexpected comparison: “I woke up ...