“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
