It preserves a Kafka wracked by pain, barely able to eat, near to death. Little wonder that the look in those eyes fits so well with a world in which, suddenly, you can wake up as an insect ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...

Dora Diamant, Kafka's partner for the last year of his baroquely sad life, claimed it did, and said she saw the strange, pathetic comedy unfold before her own eyes. One day, in Berlin, the lovers ...