![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For critics like these, he was an exemplar of socialist experimentation, a writer who drew from a diversity of sources and elements, from Jewish law and commentary to Chinese poetry, bureaucratic paperwork, and parables. An obituary in Prague’s Communist Rudé Právo described him as “a writer of rare quality…who held our corrupt world in abhorrence and dissected it with the scalpel of his reason.” Considerations of Kafka as a social critic and humorist were developed in far greater depth by figures like Siegfried Kraucer and Walter Benjamin. “The Castle and The Trial seem to bear the mark of philosophical theorems,” Theodor Adorno wrote from his Los Angeles exile, even while their “brittle prose functions like music.” Although Kafka published relatively little in his own life, he was nevertheless, by the time of his death, celebrated and hotly debated in small, particularly left-wing circles. ![]() The works of Franz Kafka have provoked an almost unparalleled range of social theoretical, philosophical, and creative responses in the near century since his untimely death in 1924. ![]()
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