A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point ...

Orson Welles’s 1962 film “The Trial” (which I ... time—albeit rarely to make movies here (“Macbeth,” in 1948; “Touch of Evil,” in 1958). Where Kafka’s vision of the vague yet ...

and the whole story is brought to life in the fascinating new movie, Kafka’s Last Trial, which will be shown on Kan 11 on ...

It is a modifier that has become as famous as Kafka himself. The Trial was written over the period ... official status), describes the behind-the-scenes operations of the court.

Thankfully, Brod ignored Kafka’s instructions to destroy his manuscripts after his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 40 in 1924. The Trial was ... the behind-the-scenes operations ...