I love sentences that instantly hit my bloodstream and derange me. When I read Kafka, I feel strangeness and beauty, I feel sorrow. It’s inventive, and yet the invention is tethered to deep, plunging feeling. These are the important values to me: when something otherworldly gets its hooks in you emotionally.
Ben Marcus, from What It Really Means to be “Kafkaesque,” (via violentwavesofemotion)










