Franz Kafka, that other light

Abstract

Franz Kafka, an author whose literature has motivated, an abundant number of pages consisting of comments, analyzes, glosses, criticisms, thesis, etc. His fame, like the course of his life, radiated slowly but surely. At first, in the 1920s, it reached just a small circle of readers initiated into the German language, and it was until the next decade that André Breton and the Minotaur group introduced it to France, where a few years later Sartre's pens and Camus gave him a new impetus. Later his work was also received in England, the United States and Latin America. Before the whole of his work had been published in Czech, not even in the original language, German, Kafka's literature had already achieved, in the memory of its author, the dubious privilege of changing his name into an adjective.