“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point ...

There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries and author’s margins to give context to their passages. There is one ...

Franz Kafka, a master of capturing modern anxieties, believed profound understanding comes from quiet observation. His quote, ...

“Guilt is never to be doubted.”— Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925) Four words. No qualifier, no escape clause, no appeal. Kafka delivers what may be the most chilling sentence in all of Western literature ...