The Art of Getting Nowhere: On Translating Kafka’s Diaries

Speaker: Ross Benjamin’s translations include Franz Kafka’s Diaries (Schocken, 2023), Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director (Summit Books, 2025), Tyll (Pantheon, 2020), and You Should Have Left (Pantheon, 2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, The Nation, and other publications. He is coeditor of the Substack FRANZ, where he regularly posts new translations of Kafka’s complete letters in chronological order. He was a 2003–2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and is a graduate of Vassar College.

When 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm on 20 February 2026
Building CAS 306, 725 Commonwealth Ave
Contact Name Cheryl Ong
Contact Email cherylxe@bu.edu