Quote by Georg Lukacs

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

“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

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

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

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

— Jessie Ware

“Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes…

— Garry Wills

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

“Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”

— Rabisankar Bal

“I have never identified with the "K" in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared to imagine…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally…

— Jonathan Franzen

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

“A realist is a slave to reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana