Running November 22, 2024 through April 13, 2025, the Morgan Library and Museum's exhibit on Franz Kafka presents an extraordinary collection relating to this immensely influential author who penned a relatively small body of work, dying of tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of forty. Highlights include the original manuscript of The Metamorphosis, manuscripts of Amerika and The Castle, letters and postcards to his sister Ottla, personal diaries where he also composed fiction such as his short story, "The Judgment," notebooks used while studying Hebrew, and family photographs. In addition to the biographical materials, the display includes items relating to his posthumous fame, including Andy Warhol's portrait of Kafka that appeared in the 1980 series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century.
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