FRANZ is dedicated to creative engagement with Franz Kafka's life and work, including the first-ever publication of his complete letters in English.
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Heath Landscape at Sunset
I thought I’d come to the end of my series on The Trial, but as it turns out I have at least one more piece to do. The topic is rather grim, though a grimness, perhaps, laced with that (some might say unmistakable) Kafkan humor. The topic c...
“All the Bad Old Sharp Foods”
For a 6’1”, 125-pound dead man, Franz Kafka retains an indelible romantic chokehold over a certain kind of person. In November of 2022, for example, a 25-year-old TikTok user with 20,000 followers named Margarita — who is also the subject o...
42. To Max Brod in Misdroy
Dear B. Certainly, I would have written to you if I had stayed in Prague. But as it is I am careless, careless now for the fourth week in a sanatorium in Silesia very much among people and women and have grown quite lively
Franz K.
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41. To Max Brod in Prague
Since you’ve had a lovely experience, in which I have no part at all, you mustn’t be annoyed with me. Especially since in the most unsettled weather I had to think the meeting was at the coffeehouse and since you spent the time with Stephan...
38.-40. To Max Brod in Prague
38. To Max Brod in Prague
Prague, probably 1904
Please wait a little. I’ll definitely be here at ½ past 10. You know; I forgot that today is a holiday and Přibram won’t let me go. But I’ll definitely come.
Your
Franz K.
Přibra...
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Seth Rogoff is the author of six books, most recently the novel The Castle (FC2 2024)
Occasional German scholar (PhD UC-Irvine, 2010); non-tenure-track writing professor. KAFKA AND WITTGENSTEIN (Northwestern U Press, 2015), SCHADENFREUDE, A LOVE STORY (Flatiron Books, 2017) and a decent list of publications all over the internet.
Translator of Kafka's complete, uncensored Diaries (Schocken Books, 2023)
Author, most recently, of The Tavern at the End of History (Dzanc Books, 2026). Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.
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