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Author
1883–1924
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, into a German-speaking Jewish family, and died in 1924, aged forty. He worked most of his life for an insurance company and wrote at night. He published little in his lifetime and asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts; Brod did not, and that is why we can read them today.
The Trial appeared in 1925, a year after his death: a man is arrested one morning without knowing what he is accused of, and spends the rest of the book trying to find out. Amerika, also published as The Man Who Disappeared, follows a young emigrant lost in a vast country.
To meet the person behind those stories there is Letter to His Father, a long reckoning he never sent, and Letters to Milena, his correspondence with the Czech writer and translator Milena Jesenská.
Franz Kafka
One ordinary morning, bank clerk Josef K. is arrested, and no one will tell him what he stands accused of. He wanders through offices, attics and baffling courts searching for an answer that keeps slipping away. Reading it feels like a lucid, unsettling dream in which bureaucracy turns into a maze and every door leads to another question.
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Franz Kafka
In November 1919, Kafka wrote his father a long letter that never reached him. With painful clarity he revisits a lifetime of fear, reproach and the longing to be understood, judging both of them along the way. Brief and intense, it reads like a private confession and casts new light on the man behind the famous novels.
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Franz Kafka
Between 1920 and 1923 Franz Kafka wrote to Milena Jesenská, his Czech translator, letters that read like an intimate diary addressed to one person. Longing, fear, tenderness and painful clarity run through every page, revealing the writer at his most unguarded. A short, intense and deeply personal read.
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Franz Kafka
After an incident with a housemaid, young Karl Rossmann is shipped off by his parents to America, a vast and baffling land run on rules no one explains. Cheerfully undaunted and shadowed by two companions both funny and menacing, he stumbles from one misadventure to the next on the road toward Oklahoma. This is Kafka at his most playful, an unfinished novel that reads like a strange, dizzy dream.
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Franz Kafka
One hundred and nine short fragments Kafka wrote during a long stay in the Bohemian countryside with his sister Ottla, while he was ill. These sharp, enigmatic thoughts on hope, suffering, guilt and the true path take moments to read and linger for days. A book to open at random and return to again and again.
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