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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37. To Max Brod in Prague
I was surprised that you’ve written nothing to me about Tonio Kröger. But I told myself: “He knows how glad I am when I get a letter from him and something must be said about Tonio Kröger. So obviously he has written to me, but there are ch...
36. To Max Brod in Prague
It’s very easy to be cheerful at the beginning of summer. One has a lively heart, a passable gait, and is fairly well disposed toward the life to come. One expects Oriental peculiarities and denies them again with a comic bow and with dangl...
Waiting at the Door
“An Italian business associate of major importance to the bank was visiting the city for the first time, and K. had been assigned to show him a few of its artistic treasures.” This is how The Trial’s famous “In the Cathedral” chapter begins...
Josefine in Bayreuth
Last week I taught Kafka’s final story, “Josefine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk,” to a room of undergraduates. Like the trapeze artist in “First Sorrow” and the title character of “A Hunger Artist”—the story that lent its name to the volume...
35. To Max Brod in Prague
Dear Max,
Especially since I wasn’t at the lecture yesterday, it seems necessary to write and explain why I didn’t join you for the masquerade evening, even though I may have promised I would.
Forgive me, I wanted to give myself the pleas...
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Seth Rogoff is the author of six books, most recently the novel The Castle (FC2 2024)
Translator of Kafka's complete, uncensored Diaries (Schocken Books, 2023)
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 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.
I write books slowly.
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