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An Untold History Of Franz Kafkas Reception In His Homeland Under Two Totalitarian Regimes, From His Death In 1924 Tothe End Of Communism The First Book-length Study Of The Reception Of Kafka In His Homeland, Czechoslovakia, Veronika Tuckerov Offers A Contextualized Understanding Of The Author By Focusing On The Period From His Death To The End Of The Communist Era In 1989. Using A Broad Comparative Framework With A Focus On Translation And Intercultural Transmission, As Well As Archival Materials And Interviews With Czech Intellectuals, Reading Kafka In Prague Shows Definitively How Kafka Shaped The Lives And Perspective Of His Czech Readers, From One-time Communists To Migrs To Dissidents, Scholars, And Artists.tuckerov Tells The Story Of Five Distinct Readings Of Kafkas Works In 20th-century Czech Lands: The Initial Triple Ghetto Reception That Survived The Second World War And The Communist Takeover. The Surrealist And Existentialist Embrace Of Kafka By Czech Artists, Mediated By The French Reception In The 1930s.