Dissertation Quote by Jessie Ware

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

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

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

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

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

— Anonymous

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I…

— Alan Lightman

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

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens…

— Christopher Hitchens

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

— Manuel Puig

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

Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany…

— Cynthia Ozick