What did Albert Camus say about Franz Kafka?

The Absurdity of Existence: Franz Kafka and Albert Camus ... Camus appended a long note—”Hope and the Absurd in the Works of Franz Kafka”—to his Sisyphus essay, commemorating the writer to whose influence he was ... Novels, said Sartre, are “machines that secrete spurious meaning into the world. read more

Camus was influenced by Kafka in his thoughts about absurdism. In his first essay The Myth of Sisyphus, he appended a note about Kafka and how he was indebted to the influence Kafka’s works had on him. This influence is clearly evident in Camus’ novel The Outsider, which has striking similarities to Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and The Trial. read more

Existentialism in Camus, the Outsider' and Kafka's, The Metamorphosis' Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Albert Camus' The Outsider, both feature protagonists in situations out of which arise existentialist values. read more

The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le Mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. The English translation by Justin O'Brien was first published in 1955. read more