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The Labyrinth Within: Franz Kafka and the Predicament of Modern Man.

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From: World and I
Date: 20040601
Author:Olsen, Eric

Eric Olsen is executive editor of The World & I.

And yet Kafka was Prague and Prague was Kafka. Never had it been Prague so perfectly, so typically, as during Kafka's lifetime, and never would it be so again. And we, his friends, ... knew that the smallest elements of this Prague were distilled everywhere in Kafka's work.

--Johannes Urzidil, The World of Franz Kafka

Two writers of the twentieth century have loaned their names to the English lexicon: George Orwell and Franz Kafka. This does not imply that they are either the greatest or even most representative ...

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