I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafk…

- Reiner Stach

Kafka often describes himself as a bloodless figure: a human being who doesn't really participate in the life of his fellow human beings, someone who…

- Reiner Stach

By the time Kafka was seven or eight years old, he already had a relatively dark view of the world derived from experiences in his own family. This t…

- Reiner Stach

Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It is necessary to connec…

- Reiner Stach

Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style until the age of nearly …

- Reiner Stach