If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

This 1813 text is one of the most famous romances in the English literary canon, with over 4 million ratings on Goodreads.

But the airline insisted they weren't on the flight. To disappear as a human … It feels like I'm in a Franz Kafka novel, said Ratkov, referring to the Czech novelist whose protagonists face surreal ...

Just as he is assigned to be a figure of absurdism, Kafka’s work follows suit. “How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?,” Kafka asks. I would ...

The breathless pace of Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is lost in translation from book to screen ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of social-media posts earned him sympathy and admiration for his truth-telling. Over two ...

In a marvelous phrase, Erich Heller credited Franz Kafka with having achieved “the ... Readers who don’t care for Modiano might say he keeps writing the same book over and over.

Haruki Murakami’s return from a six-year hiatus sees a return to the familiar, but still shines with its emotional depth and evocative prose.

When Franz Kafka's diaries were first published soon ... seeing how the themes of his writing (alienation and loss, futility and repetition) "grew out of his circumscribed life".

Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time. Reading poetry can be a daunting affair. In Australian Poetry Month ...

This is academic writing of the “in this essay I will show” variety, although there are occasional glints of style: his description of Franz Kafka’s “40-year-long tactical withdrawal from life”, or ...