Why is Franz Kafka an important writer?

In the July/August issue of the Atlantic, Joseph Epstein uses the release of Saul Friedlander's book "Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt" to pose the larger question of whether Kafka is still relevant. read more

Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka is today considered the most important prose writer of the so-called Prague Circle, a loosely knit group of German-Jewish writers who contributed to the culturally fertile soil of Prague during the 1880s until after World War I. read more

Writer Franz Kafka was the eldest son of an upper middle-class Jewish family who was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. read more