Franz Kafka: A Biography

"[This] biography is the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka's personal life and character, and is invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius."—Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune



In many ways, Franz Kafka was as anonymous and enigmatic as the heroes of his novels. Perhaps no biography can entirely clarify the enigma; but this one helps shed light on a very complicated man.



Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained clos...