Alan Bennett Quote

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Diary entry for June 27, 1988, p. 177. - Writing Home (1994)

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with...

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with...

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with...

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with...