Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.
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