Beauty Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

“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 a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

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

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

— Manuel Puig

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

— Milan Kundera

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

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

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Leslie Fiedler