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Punishment in search of a crime – Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100

“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 of its curved metal head shattering a vast plane of ice into hairline…

The Conversation

The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

PC Gamer

Kafka: Selected Stories, edited by Mark Harman review – the master who never wasted a word

A Franz Kafka scholar’s perceptive annotation and translation highlights every subtle shade of humour and brilliant aphorism in these singular tales

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Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

The Guardian - UK

Metamorphoses by Karolina Watroba; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Diaries review – Franz Kafka as more than just a prophet of malaise

To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, three compelling books – including his unedited diaries – reveal the complexity of the author’s works and why ‘Kafkaesque’ is so reductive

The Guardian - UK

What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries

On the centenary of his death, a new English translation of the great writer’s journals reveals some surprising details

The Guardian - UK

Diaries by Franz Kafka review – caught in the act

His uncensored journals disclose a messier, more sexual, complex figure – and reveal much about the process of writing

The Guardian - UK

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Franz Kafka’s dour image hid a much lighter side, a new exhibition reveals

Artefacts on display in Oxford next month show the ‘humorous insights’ of a writer best known for his nightmarish stories

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: 'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.

The Conversation

Margaret Atwood's flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth…

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