I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones.
— Franz Kafka Modern

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

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Letter to Milena Jesenská

Date / Period

1920

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Controversial

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