For 10 points, name this existential author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
In a not-entirely-terrible essay, Judith Butler examined the commodification of this author in the context of a Tel Aviv  trial to settle the question of "who owns" him. This author runs out of a brothel and throws up in the street in a short  story in which Jacques Kohn reminisces about meeting him. Elias Canetti demonstrated how one of this author's novels  had its genesis in the personal turmoil that this author himself revealed in his Letters to Felice, his fiancée. Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote about a (*) "friend of" this author, who shares his name with a character who reads Burton's translation of One  Thousand and One Nights while staying with Miss Saeki. The majority of this author's works survive today because Max Brod  ignored his order to have the manuscripts destroyed. Along with Mr. Nakata, a person with this first name is the main character of  a Murakami novel about him on the Shore. For 10 points, name this existential author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
In a not-entirely-terrible essay, Judith Butler examined the commodification of this author in the context of a Tel Aviv  trial to settle the question of "who owns" him.
Franz Kafka