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‘It was a comfort to read him in a year when everyone again had the same disease. She thought she could work through him, if she could not work through herself; she thought she could use his hands, if she could not use her own.’ – Patricia Lockwood

Mark the centenary of Kafka’s death with the London Review of Books. From Kafka’s attention-seeking to Kafka’s clothes, Kafka and gay literature to Kafka and The Lord of the Rings, Kafka at the football to Kafka on BookTok, by writers including Elif Batuman, Alan Bennett, Judith Butler, Anne Carson, Amit Chaudhuri, Jenny Diski, Penelope Fitzgerald, Rivka Galchen, Jonatham Lethem, Adam Phillips, Philip Roth, Colm Toibin, Marina Warner and many more – including Kafka himself.

Publisher Review

'The best of Franz Kafka: 'Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.' 'Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.' 'In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world' - The Zurau Aphorisms