Franz Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head by Louis Begley

In this biographical essay dedicated to Kafka, Louis Begley renders with sensitivity and insight the life and work of one of the most enigmatic and intriguing figures of modern literature. Kafkaesque: the very word evokes crushing self-doubt, torturous bureaucracy and an almost unbearable inadequacy in the face of higher powers. After Kafka, it can be said, literature was the not the same.

(2008, Paperback, 208 pages)