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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is the foundational voice of a whole modern territory — the literature of systems, shame, and waking dread. He specialised in situations that feel both dreamlike and bureaucratically precise: a man becomes an insect overnight; another is arrested without knowing the charge; a surveyor never reaches the castle that governs him. Kafka wrote with icy clarity and dark comedy, never raising his voice, which makes the terror sharper. Few writers have so completely named a mood that later centuries recognised as their own. To read him is to enter a specialist art of the absurd that still feels unnervingly accurate.

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