Metamorphoses: in search of Franz Kafka

Prologue: what makes Kafka Kafka

Oxford: English Kafka. Migrations

Locked out of the library

Kafka's manuscripts

Precious like papyrus

Pandemic read

Kafka and coronavirus

Kafka and Brexit

Berlin: German Kafka. Siegfried doesn't get it

Somebody else doesn't get it either

So you want people to know Kafka wrote in German?

A tale of many plaques

Circus rider on two horses

A German education

On a train across the German lands

Vienna and Berlin

Kafka's doll

Readers on standby

Prague: Czech Kafka. Into the Kafkorium

Transformations and retransformations

'Grant him a permanent visa!'

Kafka returns

From Café Louvre to Café Slavia

The breakthrough and the bridge

Father and son

Another son, another father

Readers' judgement

Tale without end

I came a long way to discover a poor substitute for your company

Jerusalem: Jewish Kafka. Jewish readers' Kafka

Kafka and Zionism

Kafka's Jewishness

From Yiddish to Hebrew

Hebrew notebooks

The Hebrew notebook

Writing the body

Reading trails

Travelling on

The stakes of travel

Seoul: Asian Kafka. Kafka arrives in east Asia

Polar bear reads Kafka

The animal artists and her message

Kafka's message reaches Korea

A 'writers' writer'

Kafkaesque Korean wave?

Kafka the feminist

Milena, Milena, ecstatic

Korean-Mongolian-German-Czech

Coda: Kafka in the cloud.