The Morgan Library & Museum will present Franz Kafka, on view Friday, Nov. 22, through April 13, 2025, marking the 100th anniversary of the authors death. The exhibition celebrates Kafkas achievements, creativity, and continued influence on new literary, theatrical, and artistic creations around the world. Franz Kafka will be presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, whose extraordinary Kafka holdings will appear in the United States for the first time. The items on view include literary manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and photographs, including the original manuscript of his novella The Metamorphosis. When Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of 40, in 1924, few could have predicted the influence his relatively small body of work would have on every realm of thought and creative endeavor over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. Kafkas novels and short stories have had an immense influence on literature, art, and culture in the United States in particular, and visitors to the Morgan will be able to experience important items from the Bodleians Kafka archive in the place where his work has made an outsize impact. The exhibition not only sets Kafka in the context of his times but also shows how his own experiences nourished his imagination, taking visitors on a journey through his life and influences, from his relationship with his family and the people closest to him to the places where he lived and worked, through to his last years of illness and his death. For additional information, visit www.themorgan.org.