Admit Quote by Cynthia Ozick

“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque”

— Franz Kafka

“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s,…

— Rick Gekoski

Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried…

— Milan Kundera

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

“Likewise, if Kafka wants to express the absurd, he will make use of consistency. You know the story of the crazy man who was…

— Albert Camus

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not…

— Haruki Murakami

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,…

— Manuel Puig

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose…

— Irving Howe

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

— Etgar Keret

“The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than diminishes intellectual vigor and spiritual fulfillment, the notion that in…

— Tom Robbins

“Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”

— Rabisankar Bal