Czech Your Sources

In his article on Jeremy Irons and the film “Kafka” (“Eyeing His Options,” Dec. 1), Sean Mitchell describes Franz Kafka as a “tormented Austrian author.”

I hope Irons doesn’t play Kafka with a Claus von Bulow accent, because Kafka, in fact, was born and lived virtually his entire life in my native country, Czechoslovakia, a small country near, but not, Austria.

OLGA HORAK

Sun Valley