February 2011
24 posts
Anonymous asked: Why is Kafka considered an existentialist writer?
“The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul,...”
– –from a letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922
Anonymous asked: What is your favorite novel and/or short story by Kafka?
“‘Just think, they never sleep!’
‘And why not?’
‘Because they never get tired.’...”
– from Kafka’s ‘Children on a Country Road’
“My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over...”
– -excerpt from Kafka’s ‘The Complete Short Stories’
“Kafkaesque: The adjective refers to anything suggestive of Franz Kafka,...”
