The experimental literary rapture around Franz Kafka only came about against his wishes after he died, because originally he wanted all his work destroyed.

Although versions of Kafka’s diaries had previously been published thanks to the efforts of his Jewish friend and literary executor Max Brod (with translation assistance from Hannah Arendt ...

In his biography of Kafka, Max Brod records a conversation he had with Kafka on Feb. 28, 1920. According to Brod, Kafka quipped that humans were but one of God’s bad moods, God having a bad day.

Kafka was his own harshest critic and was reportedly very dissatisfied with his own work to the extent that he destroyed several manuscripts. After his death, however, his friend Max Brod went ...

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".

So we get Kafka as seen by his close friend and literary executor Max Brod, who famously defied his friend's dying wish that he burn all his unpublished manuscripts. Kafka from the angle of his ...

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 ...

As the then incurable and painful disease made his demise inevitable, Kafka entrusted his good friend Max Brod (1884-1968) to be his literary executor. The two had met at 1902 when they were ...

While visitors can pore over the manuscripts, or watch a film of Arthur Pita’s gruelling Metamorphosis ballet, they are also treated to an animation of Max Brod saving Kafka’s work from ...

Please recommend a book in which we can admire Kafka's paintings. Kafka left behind a series of drawings, which were made known through his friend Max Brod. Brod, who also published Kafka's posthumous ...