Franz Kafka on Authenticity and Institutional Pressure

Sharib on Instagram: "‘‘I am not a person; to come close to me is to lose the ground— you fall through me.’’ . . . . Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucr