Why was Franz Kafka never married?

Kafka wanted to get married. According to the dictates of both his religion and culture, a man without a wife and family was not a man. He tried. He fell in love easily. He was engaged three times, twice to the same woman. But none of his loves was the right one. read more

The beauty of Kafka is that all the myriad theories about who he was and why he wrote the things he wrote, and what they mean, all have some glimmer of fact or truth. It’s all in the interpretation. read more

In his 1995 book Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman investigated "why a Jew might have been considered 'hypochondriac' or 'homosexual' and how Kafka incorporates aspects of these ways of understanding the Jewish male into his own self-image and writing". read more

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