Faces and places

Franz Kafka in Berlin, in the last years of his life.

1923

The 1910 portrait — the years Kafka filled his notebooks with short pieces.

1910

Kafka in the year he completed his law degree, Prague.

1906

Kafka at about nineteen, before university.

c. 1899

Kafka and his sister Ottla, the sister closest to him.

c. 1917

The year of his diagnosis — a year in which Kafka retreated further into silence.

1917

Kafka in 1920, the year of the letters to Milena.

1920

Kafka at a sanatorium, 1921.

1921

Kafka with a dog in Prague — one of his least-seen photographs.

undated

The plaque at Kafka's birthplace in Prague, near the Old Town Square.

2013

Jaroslav Róna's Kafka monument, Prague.

2003

David Černý's kinetic Kafka head, Prague.

2014