I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description.
— Franz Kafka Modern

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

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Letter to Milena Jesenská

Date / Period

1920

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Humorous

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https://www.kafka-online.info/kafka-letters.html

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