FRANZ
Seth Rogoff, Elif Batuman, Ross Benjamin, Veronika Tuckerova, Michelle Woods, Benjamin Balint, Marie Luise KnottFRANZ 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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35. To Max Brod in Prague
Dear Max,
Kafka and Brod
Editors’ Note: In the coming weeks, we’ll begin publishing Kafka’s first letters to Max Brod as part of Ross Benjamin’s ongoing translation project. To mark the occasion, we asked Elif Batuman for permission to share her write-up of the bri...
Dreamwork of the Archive
On December 4, 2025, I participated in the inaugural Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium at MoMA PS1 in New York. The essay below was written for the booklet that accompanied the symposium and is available here in digital form. —RB
34. To Oskar Pollak at Oberstudenetz Castle at Zdiretz
Only this fragment of the letter survives:
Authors
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Seth Rogoff is the author of six books, most recently the novel The Castle (FC2 2024)
I write books slowly.
Translator of Kafka's complete, uncensored Diaries (Schocken Books, 2023)
I teach Czech at Harvard’s Slavic department. My interests include Czech language and literature, Franz Kafka and other Czech German writers, dissent and underground, samizdat, visual studies, and translation theory and practice.
Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. Author of books on translation and Kafka, Václav Havel, and Milan Kundera. Forthcoming books on translators and Anna Karenina, and translators and the archive.
Benjamin Balint is the author of "Kafka’s Last Trial," winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. His most recent book, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History," won a National Jewish Book Award.
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