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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century author Franz Kafka, released in the U.S. from June 6.

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Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years.

Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. So why is he still so popular today?

A revelatory edition of his diaries and a new biography upend the simplified myth of the anguished writer.

Max Brod, an important representative of Prague Jewish German literature, was born 140 years ago, on May 27, 1884. He is best known as the saviour of Franz Kafka's work.

Benjamin Balint at the NYT:

A revelatory edition of his diaries and a new biography upend the simplified myth of the anguished writer.

The last years of Kafka's life were associated with severe illness and numerous stays in sanatoriums.

Kafka expert Mark Harman, translator of a new collection of the writer's stories, discusses many aspects of his work, including his distinctive style and sense of humour.