the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise…

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish…

— Charlie Trotter

“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line. It’s a…

— Donald Barthelme

“Svako živi iza rešetaka koje nosi sa sobom. Zato se sada tako mnogo piše o životinjama. To je izraz čežnje za slobodnim, prirodnim životom.…

— Gustav Janouch

“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on…

— Patrick McGuinness

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not…

— Justin Cartwright

Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

— Eugenio Montale

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

— Robert Coover

“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in…

— Franz Kafka

“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”

— David Mikics

“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka…

— Franz Kafka

I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said…

— Peter Capaldi