Garret Rowlan, writing in The Cafe Irreal, writes that the malaise present in the work of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, " which recalls Kafka, has to do with the sense of another world lurking, hovering like the long shadows that dominate de Chirico's paintings, which frequently depict a landscape at twilight's uncertain hour.

One critic argues that it is Kafka ’ s influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel: “ Like Kafka ’ s heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of him raising the number of missions he has to fly .”

The Quay Brothers ' works ( 1979 – present ) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work.

In addition to Derrida and Joyce, she has written monographs on the work of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, on Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Michel de Montaigne, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, and the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities.

Since 1995 he has written critical material on Kafka, Goethe, Kleist and Holderlin in cooperation with the Department of German Studies.

She has been compared to Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin, as well as Kafka.

It has been likened to the best work of other writers like Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints.

Very short fiction has roots going back to Aesop's Fables, and practitioners have included Saadi of Shiraz ( The Gulistan ), Bolesław Prus, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Franz Kafka, H. P.

The Other Side has an atmosphere of claustrophobic absurdity reminiscent of the writings of Franz Kafka, who admired Die Andere Seite.

He has received the Magnesia Litera Award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honors.

Despite the canonic status of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Döblin is often characterized as an under-recognized or even as a forgotten author ; while his work has received increasing critical attention ( mostly in German ) over the last few decades, he is much less well known by the reading public than other representatives of German modernism such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, or Franz Kafka.

He has been referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

In the past the town has been a popular place of residence for several scientists, literary people, and artists, including Franz Kafka, Ezra Pound and Paul Lazarsfeld, who appreciated its mild climate.

The album has also been seen as reflecting the influence of such figures as Aleister Crowley, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche.

He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.

The ' end of the world ' has much in common with The Castle by Franz Kafka.

Due to the Oedipal theme running through much of the novel, Kafka on the Shore has been called a modern Greek tragedy.

He has been awarded a number of prizes throughout his creative life, most notably the Prix des Critiques in 1971, the Balzan Prize ( for Art History and Art Criticism in Europe ), the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1995 and Franz Kafka Prize in 2007.

One writer has described Ullman's milieu in these terms: " Like such other assimilated German-speaking Czech Jews as Kafka and Mahler, Ullmann lived a life of multiple estrangements, cut off from Czech nationalism, German anti-Semitism and Jewish orthodoxy ".

He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.

About the stories: " Stable Strategies for Middle Management " has generally been interpreted as a pastiche of Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, with satiric relevance to late-20th-Century high-tech corporate culture.

" Wedding Preparations in the Country " ( German: " Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande ") is an incomplete work by Franz Kafka which depicts in great detail the journey of the groom, Raban, travelling to the country to meet his future wife, Betty.

But, writing in the New York Times Book Review, noted scholar Alfred Appel called it " a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous " and said that it " provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce.

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While Camus acknowledges that Kafka's work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he maintains that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope.

Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka.

Unlike Kafka, Brod rapidly became a prolific, successful published writer who eventually published 83 titles.

Management professor Peter Drucker credited writer Franz Kafka with developing the first civilian hard hat when he was employed at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia ( 1912 ), but this is not supported by any document from his employer.

* Haruki Murakami, novelist, translator, writer, recipient of Franz Kafka Prize

After her release, Kavan changed her name legally and set about a new career as an avant-garde writer in the mode of Franz Kafka.

Franz Kafka is another writer who felt immensely indebted to Dostoyevsky and The Brothers Karamazov for influencing his own work.

It is named after Franz Kafka, the Austrian-Czech writer.

Additionally, Kafka ’ s poor relationship with his girlfriend of five years, Felice Bauer, hindered his progress as a creative writer.

Other famous Jewish authors that made contributions to world literature include Heinrich Heine, German poet, Mordecai Richler, Canadian author, Isaac Babel, Russian author, Franz Kafka, of Prague, and Harry Mulisch, sometimes referred to as the best Dutch writer ever.

Celebrities who were far more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime ( and often were completely or relatively unknown ) include Greek philosopher Socrates ; scientist Galileo Galilei ; 1800s-era poet John Keats ; painter Vincent van Gogh ; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe ; singer Eva Cassidy ; writer Emily Dickinson ; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977 ); writer Franz Kafka ; diarist Anne Frank ; philosopher Soren Kierkegaard ; writer John Kennedy Toole ( who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death ); author Stieg Larsson ( who died with his Millennium novels unpublished ) and William Webb Ellis, the alleged inventor of Rugby football.

Murnau in its visual presentation, and to the writer Franz Kafka in theme.

The adjacent New Jewish Cemetery, one of two historic Jewish burial places in the district ( the other being the Žižkov Cemetery next to the Žižkov Tower ), contains the grave of Czech-German writer Franz Kafka.

Notable burials include writer Franz Kafka.

After having run away from home, he chooses the new name " Kafka ", in honor of writer Franz Kafka.

# Franz Kafka – 19th / 20th century writer