Was he or wasn't he? Czech, that is. Is the eternal question asked about Kafka. Given the cultural milieu of his time, the answer is probably no, but the fact remains that all of his writing (and that of his friends) was in German. But now it's all available in Czech. Although all the main works have been translated for a long time, now, the Kafka-obsessed can have it all in one set of thirteen volumes. The fact that I found out about this Czech event regarding a German-writing Jew in an English version of a Croatian website tells us as much about our world as anything Kafka might have written.

Javno - Bestseller The collected works of Franz Kafka were published in the Czech language in their entirety for the first time, 83 years after the author’s death. Kafka (1883 – 1924) was born in Prague and lived there, but German was his mother tongue and the language in which he wrote his literary works.

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