
| A century after his birth he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern A century after his birth he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament. -- John Updike, The New Yorker His writings are the beautiful and fantastic prolegomena to Buddhism which he never chose to formulate. --Aldous Huxley His writings are the beautiful and fantastic prolegomena to Buddhism which he never chose to formulate. -- Aldous Huxley Kafka never wrote a more accurate picture of Central Europe than in his novel Amerika. Kafka never wrote a more accurate picture of Central Europe than in his novel Amerika. -- Eleanor Clark, The Griffin This fantasy of a New World, so full of a childlike genius...this strange book—Amerika. --Thomas Mann This fantasy of a New World, so full of a childlike genius...this strange book—Amerika. -- Thomas Mann --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
| Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. |
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