”I do not know. This essay could come down to just that. I have avoided writing about Kafka because – I do not know – I do not know where he is; I do not know what to say; I do not know what I do not know about Kafka. My suspicion is, I do not know because Kafka did not want me or any reader to know. At my most pissed off with him, I look at his stories and novels as clockwork contraptions for making mystification.”
Citerat ur ”Franz Kafka” av Toby Litt i antologin Morphologies – short story writers on short story writers (comma press, 2014), en suverän liten guide med korta, täta och analytiska texter om novellister som Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Dostojevskij, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D.H. Lawrence med flera. Varje essä avslutas med tips om vidare läsning.
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