Franz Kafka
(1883–1924) was a key twentieth-century writer; his major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
—Charles SimicMichael Hofmann’s magnificent new translation restores its rightful place as one of Kafka’s most delightful and most memorable works.
(1883–1924) was a key twentieth-century writer; his major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
—Jorge Luis BorgesOf course I owe much to Kafka. I admire him, as I suppose all reasonable people do.
—Vladimir NabokovHe 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.
—John AshberyA stirring, singular work, now restored to its original beauty.
—David Foster WallaceWhat 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.
—Charles SimicMichael Hofmann’s magnificent new translation restores its rightful place as one of Kafka’s most delightful and most memorable works.