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What are your views on Franz Kafka's writings?

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I've read only a few works of Franz Kafka, and to be honest, I won't claim that I can interpret his writing. read more

First thing: Kafka's writing is gloomy, his works convey an utter sense of helplessness, vulnerability and rejection. All his works that I've read so far seem to have been affected by his own real-life relationship with his father. The plot never gets optimistic till the end, it keeps on slipping from sad to miserable to the bottom of the pits. read more

Kafka's disenchantment with and eventual hatred of his father were a stimulus to write, but they neither explain the fascination of his writing nor tell us why he wrote at all. The psychological or psychoanalytical approach to Kafka largely ignores the content of his works and uses the "findings" of the diagnosis as the master key to puzzling out Kafka's world. read more

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Franz Kafka Biography
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Understanding Kafka's Writing
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