Beauty Quote by 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

“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

“Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”

— Rabisankar Bal

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

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

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: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

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

“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

The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories,…

— Steve Donoghue

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

— Joan Halifax

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in…

— Muriel Spark