![]() ![]() There are none of the extended dialectical workouts we find in the more overtly cerebral modernists, and there’s little in the way of technical trickery. The face-melting prose of Nabokov or Henry James the allusive density of Joyce or Proust the psychological subtlety of Woolf or Eliot the social sweep of Dickens or Tolstoy the flashy metaphysics of Musil or Mann.īut it is more problematic to find a relevant subsection under Great in which to file Kafka. ![]() What is it that makes Kafka’s fiction so important? There are more readily identifiable features in other major modern authors that make it more straightforward – perhaps due to a sensibility their work has helped shape – to account for the esteem in which they are held. (Franz Kafka – giant of Modernist literature and pioneering Shoreditch twat) ![]()
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