Meet Kafka at the Morgan! the Metamorphosis Original Manuscript

Join me at the Morgan Library Museum for a Friday evening with jazz music and welcoming atmosphere. Let go of your weekload, RELAX and let's explore the newest KAFKA exhibit!

This exhibition will present, for the first time in the United States, the Bodleian Library’s extraordinary holdings of literary manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and photographs related to Kafka, including the original manuscript of his novella The Metamorphosis. Other highlights include the manuscripts of his novels Amerika and The Castle; letters and postcards addressed to his favorite sister, Ottla; his personal diaries, in which he also composed fiction, including his literary breakthrough, the Protected content “The Judgment”; and unique items such as his drawings, the notebooks he used when studying Hebrew, and family photographs.

In addition to presenting unique literary and biographical material, the exhibition examines Kafka’s afterlife, from the complex journeys of his manuscripts, to the posthumous creation of a literary icon whose very name has become an adjective, to his immense influence on the worlds of literature, theater, dance, film, and the visual arts. Drawing on institutional holdings and private collections in the United States and Europe, the Morgan will show a selection of key works, among them Andy Warhol’s portrait of Kafka, part of his Protected content Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century.
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