Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who doesn't actually live in the true sense of the word, but who consists rather of… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of will. An untold number had done this before him for religious reasons, but Kafka had based… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
By the time Kafka was seven or eight years old, he already had a relatively dark view of the world derived from experiences in… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafka's life. In… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
