Kafka

The thing that struck me most about Kafka's writing the first time I encountered it was the physicality of it. We're used to valuing brevity and succinctness over wordiness and bulk, but here was a form of writing where a paragraph could run over two, three, four pages. A single paragraph! Great blocks of writing, dense as a meteor, and containing an equivalent amount of universal wisdom. The vast rockface of protocol he was writing about solidified in the vast rockface of words he created. It's that great modernist thing of form following function, and like a lot of modernist work it's great on the large scale but also in miniature - if you've not read them, treat yourself to his collected short stories. Anyway, my Kafka print is available in the shop here.