“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, translated by Susan Bernofsky (W.W. Norton, 128 pages, $10.95 paperback) It has become fashionable of late to claim that Franz Kafka is overrated as an ...

If Wednesday’s Google Doodle looks a little buggy, if you will, that’s because it’s meant to celebrate Franz Kafka, the “Metamorphosis” author who would have turned 130 today.

Franz Kafka has been dead for nearly 90 years, which I suppose has given him ample time to get very good at haunting people. Such as, for example, Susan Bernofsky, author of a fastidious new ...

No one could possibly have a crappier day than Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has transformed into a beetle and spends the rest of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” reconciling his ...

The works Kafka published during his lifetime, among which number the most famous stories (“The Judgment,” “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony” and others), amount to about 350 ...

Anti-hero Gregor Samsa may not be a commonly known name, but the character is one of Western literature’s oddest - Samsa becomes an insect-like creature in Franz Kafka’s classic “The ...

In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is act… ...

Still, amid so much that is quotidian, the unnerving, the Kafkaesque does periodically creep in.We learn that when Kafka moved to Berlin in 1923, another, completely different Franz Kafka came to ...