Quote by Rabisankar Bal Download Open image ““Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”” — Rabisankar Bal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
By the time Kafka was seven or eight years old, he already had a relatively dark view of the world derived from experiences in… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I’m not the flowering of a song, nor the flow of melody I am the echo of the shattering sound of my defeat” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Words are flowers, if you can't see their colours or smell them, they're nothing but dead letters.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Karbala is what happens when this life becomes an expanse of death. That is the destiny of the writer of stories, janab.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Has anyone ever been able to prevent the dead from talking to one another?” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Their lives are like measuring tapes, and they want to trim the lives of other people to same measurements” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“If you have to die like a worm, die that way, complaining will not fetch you anything extra.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write history. All it needs is memory. But to write a story you must have the power to dream.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Why does time erase me thus, O Lord? I’m no redundant letter on the page of the world” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“But you must indulge your Manto bhai. Memories, my brothers, so many memories, they just drag me back to the past as I talk.… — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“Dilli, which was the chosen city of this world, Which the finest people on earth made their home, Has now been ravaged by time… — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“There are two Ghalibs,’ you said once, ‘one of them is a Seljuq Turk, who consorts with badshahs, and the other is homeless and… — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
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