until 15.06.2025
To mark the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, the National Library of Israel is displaying for the first time original pieces from the archive of one of the most influential authors of the 20th century and to this day – a writer who was able to brilliantly describe the ‘Kafkaesque’ and often senseless reality of modern life. The exhibition offers an experience that honours Kafka’s legacy and invites visitors to make their own way through a literary labyrinth. On display are Kafka’s famous will, in which he requested that all his writings be burned after his death, the accusatory 100-page ‘Letter to the Father’, original manuscripts of his well-known books The Trial, Amerika and The Castle, as well as his stories and novellas, including The Metamorphosis, first editions and rare editions, personal letters, as well as his own drawings, photographs and Hebrew writing exercises. The exhibition also includes materials that show the enormous influence of Kafka’s work in Israel and around the world, including adaptations in theatre, film, dance and the visual arts. For this exhibition, works were commissioned from eight of Israel’s leading illustrators – Sergey Isakov, Eitan Eloa, Nino Biniashvili, Anat Warshavsky, Addam Yekutieli, Merav Salomon, Roni Fahima and Michel Kichka – to correspond with the works of Kafka and the figure of the author himself.
Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author
until 15.06.2025
National Library of Israel
Eliezer Kaplan St 1, Jerusalem
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