In 1935, the first Polish translation of a work by Franz Kafka was published. It was “The Trial,” the translation of which had for years been attributed to Bruno Schulz, but was in fact authored by Józefa Szelińska. The most recent translation of Kafka’s three best-known stories, titled “Kary” (Punishments), by Łukasz Musiał, was published in September 2024. Over the course of ninety…