Metamorphosis of an Author” at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

It’s fitting that this movie is being released now, just after the centenary of Kafka’s death was marked, and as an exhibit ...

Among the audience was a 26-year-old insurance salesman named Franz Kafka, who had been dragged there at the insistence of his friend Max Brod. Brod would later make an indelible mark on world ...

Kafka was uncertain. Kafka wrote in the evenings and at night: diaries, short stories and novels. His best friend, Max Brod, whom he had met while studying law, recognized Kafka's literary talent ...

diaries and reflections shed valuable light on Kafka's personality. "We have no literary surprises here," he said. But "without Max Brod we would not really know who Kafka is".

Kafka, who was enjoying a holiday in north-eastern Italy at the time, was present at the event in person with Max Brod, and wrote an account of the emotional experience, The Aeroplanes at Brescia (Die ...

South Koreans are Kafka fans, fascinated by his work. Without Max Brod there would be no Franz Kafka. While the sheet with the fever curve and the medical record are kept in a glass case (Kafka, who ...