"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 those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."

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Franz Kafka was a German-language writer from Prague whose fiction explored bureaucracy, alienation, and existential anxiety. Major works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle. His posthumously published novels and stories made him one of the defining writers of the 20th century.

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