A Journey into Kafka’s World

The knock disturbs the sweet slumber of the sleeping, and Kafka’s stories begin where the happy endings of old tales leave off. Now, the gates of hell in this premature apocalypse have opened before its inhabitants. Inhabitants both alive and dead, inhabitants neither this nor that. Mighty rulers, stricken and ill. Yet Kafka’s world is not a world of despair; it is the world of the fiercest battle of time—the battle with masks old and new. Kafka’s art is a full reflection of the crisis of human existence in an era in which we also live, and this makes understanding him and his world a necessity. An understanding free from prejudiced approval or condemnation. “A Journey Through Kafka’s World” sets out on this path.