Read Kafka

27 contemporary voices on the seductive power of Franz Kafka and his work

When Franz Kafka died 100 years ago, the world was a different place. But even today, in the 21st century, his novels, his parables, his diaries and his incomparable letters have lost nothing of their original, disturbing, touching and always consoling effect. On the contrary, this volume shows that his works, his life and his view of the world tell us a great deal about ourselves, especially in the present age in which we live, and that Franz Kafka remains a fixed point of modernity for today's writers.

27 German-speaking and international authors, visual artists, thinkers and poets write about what they see as the timelessness, the urgent topicality of this Jewish-German writer of the century from Prague.