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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed to the postbox day after day... ate with editors... intrigued for favorable notices... read the Writer's Digest... consorted with critics... autographed napkins... made himself available to librarians... spoke on the radio...
Donald Barthelme
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"Wakefield" prefigures Franz Kafka, but the latter modifies, and sharpens, the reading of "Wakefield." The debt is mutual; a great writer creates his or her precursors. He or she creates them and in some fashion justifies them.
Jorge Luis Borges
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinjsky reaches a limit of sincerity beyond any of the documents that we have referred to on this study. There are other modern works that express the same sense that civilized life is a form of living death; notably the poetry of T. S. Eliot and the novels of Franz Kafka; but there is an element of prophetic denunciation in both, the attitude of healthy men rebuking their sick neighbors. We possess no other record of the Outsider's problems that was written by a man about to be defeated and permanently smashed by those problems.
Colin Wilson
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What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.
Art Spiegelman
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"This is now a matter of national security, sir."
"This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."
Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.
"He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."
"Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."
Ian McDonald
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My father once remarked that the only way to write was the 'Franz Kafka' way where thoughts turn into pus-wielding wounds and when you let that wound out, it twists and turns into a story which people consume.
Shomprakash Sinha Roy
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Franz Kafka
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Born:
July 3, 1883
Died:
June 3, 1924
(aged 40)
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