Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka is, mercifully, no conventional biography. We don’t need one: Reiner Stach’s monumental three-volume Kafka will remain definitive for quite some time.

In Murray's account, Kafka's employer valued him highly, and under the imprint of no less a figure than Kurt Wolff, he experienced some literary success.

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. WHEN Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” appeared posthumously in the 1920s, the German satirist and ...

The German scholar Reiner Stach has spent more than 20 years working on Kafka’s life, and his comprehensive biography is now available in this country for the first time since the publication in ...