The Prague Circle

A group of mostly Jewish German-speakingwriters, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures inmodern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, FranzWerfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminaldramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and essays on aesthetics. Thewriters of the Prague Circle were bound together not by a common perspective ora particular ideology, but by shared experiences and interests. From theirvantage po