The term Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences, especially with bureaucracy. But does standing in a long line to fill out confusing paperwork really capture the richness...

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Canadian poet critic and novelist Margaret Atwood receives this year's international Franz Kafka literary prize at a ceremony in Prague which honoured the lifetime achievements of The Handmaid's Tale author

A hidden trove of unpublished works by Franz Kafka has been unveiled in Jerusalem at the National Library of Israel on Wednesday, following a decade-long battle over his literary estate.

La Biblioteca Nacional de Israel dio a conocer el miercoles escritos que faltaban del escritor judio checo Franz Kafka y puso fin a mas de una decada de una saga judicial sobre su propiedad (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Many nations maintain official libraries of their countries' most prized historical manuscripts, but Israel's is unique: It seeks manuscripts from every country in the world where Jews have ever lived.

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The Israel National Library unveils a missing batch of Czech Jewish writer Franz Kafka's papers ending more than a decade of legal wrangling over ownership in Israel and Europe (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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The incoming Austrian government has announced it will scrap a planned law banning smoking in all bars and restaurants.

Instead a proposed new law would follow the so-called Berlin...

German authorities on Tuesday handed over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from one of the author's surreal stories.