Abstract
Franz Kafka is without doubt the best known of all the writers to have been born and lived in Prague. Yet his works are again not published in his native country and the fiftieth anniversary of his death last year was passed over in silence. In a report on ‘The Cultural Scene in Czechoslovakia: March 1974-April 1975’ Radio Free Europe (27 March 1975) quoted a leading Prague literary critic to explain why one of the greatest of the world's modern authors has once more become an ‘unperson’.