Influence Quote by Lore Segal

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

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

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

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his…

— David Foster Wallace

When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored by that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“A quick look at the map of Europe suggests that Kafka either had a profound ignorance of geography or a profound grasp of emotional…

— James Hawes

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Manuel Puig

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew…

— Nicole Krauss