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A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

A sneak preview of a new exhibition about him sends shivers down my spine

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024

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 · Jun 1, 2024

Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant today

Throughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka portrays the gruelling consequences of overwork on desperate people.

The Conversation · May 31, 2024

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Kafka 100: Stanley Kubrick’s films are littered with references to the writer’s work

I began teaching Stanley Kubrick in 2007 shortly after I moved to Bangor University. In 2012, I embarked on a research project exploring what I called Kubrick’s ethics, ethnicity and archives. It was during that research, which was published as Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual in 2018, that I…

The Conversation · May 31, 2024

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 · May 12, 2024

Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2024

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 · May 1, 2024

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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 · Apr 24, 2024

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 · Mar 31, 2024

Films Boutique and Agnieszka Holland reunite for Kafka biopic Franz.

Learn about the upcoming Franz Kafka biopic Franz, directed by Agnieszka Holland. Discover the cast, production details, and the filmmaker's approach to de...

American actress Felicity Huffman joins our theatre podcast for Hir at the Park Theatre

Welcome to this week’s episode of The Standard Theatre Podcast!

Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2024

The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

Metamorphosis at the Lyric Hammersmith review: it's a bug's life in Lemn Sissay's meandering take on Kafka

The production fosters a potent sense of unease, but the mood is relentless and unvarying

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2024

Mieko Kawakami: ‘Franz Kafka is my comfort read’

The Japanese author on the humour of Kurt Vonnegut, the joys of James Joyce and translating Beatrix Potter

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2023

From Kurt to Elvis, JFK and more, what movies did stars see just before they died?

For Franz Kafka, it was The Kid. For Stanley Kubrick, it was the trailer to Eyes Wide Shut. But what about Cobain, Presley and Kennedy? Artist Stanley Schtinter talks us through his revelatory new project

The Hindu · Oct 9, 2023

Bengaluru | Senior Kannada journalist G.N. Ranganatha Rao passes away

G.N. Ranganatha Rao, 81, passed away in Bengaluru on Oct 9. He was a senior journalist, writer and translator. He wrote books on journalism, short stories, novels, satires, criticism, and poetry. He translated works of William Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, O'Henry, and Ramachandra Guha into Kannada.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2023

Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic

This staging of Kafka’s story is physically exciting, even tireless, but it hits an early peak of terror then has nowhere to go for two hours

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

‘This family is being devoured’: Lemn Sissay on why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a tale for our times

The poet has teamed up with Frantic Assembly to bring the novella, about a man who turns into an insect, to the stage. He explains why this story of family meltdown is all about modern life

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2023

Prom 26: BBCPhil/Storgårds review – Barry takes us inside Kafka’s head

Gerald Barry’s deliberately muted new work, Kafka’s Earplugs, failed to make an impact in this venue, while James Ehnes was a deft and impressive soloist in Walton’s violin concerto

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

From Talk to Me to Wizkid: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

There’s a creepy hand causing all manner of devilry in a superb Aussie horror film, and the Afrobeats honcho rocks the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

The Conversation · Jul 17, 2023

In J.M. Coetzee's latest story collection, questions of the soul become urgent as the body becomes frail

Devotees of J.M. Coetzee’s writing will be delighted at the publication of The Pole and Other Stories. What may be surprising to some about this collection is that the stories have all appeared before in some form – but not always in English.

Evening Standard · Jun 30, 2023

The science behind the brain-altering impact of your first pregnancy

Having given birth, Lucy Jones dug deep into the science of why she felt like a totally different person… and had her mind blown by what she discovered

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2023

Tilda Swinton joins Max Richter on Glastonbury stage for spoken word performance

The actress was on the Park stage at Glastonbury.

The Conversation · Jun 8, 2023

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.

Inverse · May 17, 2023

'Honkai Star Rail' Theory Teases a Freaky Kafka Twist Ahead

'Honkai: Star Rail's Kafka has a couple of loose screws. Here's one piece of lore that you might've missed about the Stellaron Hunter.

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