Franz Kafka
(1883–1924) was a key twentieth-century writer; his major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
Michael Hofmann's magnificent new translation restores its rightful place as one of Kafka's most delightful and most memorable works.—Charles Simic
(1883–1924) was a key twentieth-century writer; his major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
Of course I owe much to Kafka. I admire him, as I suppose all reasonable people do.—Jorge Luis Borges
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him.—Vladimir Nabokov
What Kafka's stories have…is a grotesque, gorgeous, and thoroughly modern complexity, an ambivalence that becomes the multivalent Both/And logic of the, quote, ‘unconscious,’ which I personally think is just a fancy word for soul.—David Foster Wallace
Michael Hofmann's magnificent new translation restores its rightful place as one of Kafka's most delightful and most memorable works.—Charles Simic