Franz Kafka — "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the b…"

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it?
Franz Kafka — Franz Kafka Modern · The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

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Letter to Oskar Pollak

Date: 1904

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