"One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up to find himself transformed into a giant insect." Gabriel Garcia Marquez says it is the reading of this one sentence that gave him the confidence to be an author: because till then, he never thought that people had the freedom to write so outrageously!
How many more have you inspired like that, dear Franz Kafka, my favourite purveyor of nightmares?
And we overlook the black humor, thinking he is writing about profound things. I read about the humor in Kafka novels in an essay by Kundera. I reread and was amazed how easy it was to overlook the obvious hilarity.
Kafka is very easy to read if you don't try to understand what he "means". He doesn't "mean" anything . Kafka just tells you a story. Suspend all disbelief, go along with him, and you will understand that it was a ride worth taking!
With this message from Nandakumar Sir, we started our today, celebrating Franz Kafka's birthday, who was born on 3 July 1883 in Germany and left us too early on 3 June 1924 due to TB.
Franz Kafka's work is characterized by anxiety and alienation, and his characters often face absurd situations. He is famous for his novels The Trial, in which a man is charged with a crime that is never named, and The Metamorphosis, in which the protagonist wakes to find himself transformed into an insect.
He was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.
Great Works of Franz Kafka - Amercia, The Castle, The Trial – Is calling me.
What makes something kafkaesque? - anything that's made complicated
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