Tanith Lee vs. Franz Kafka
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Tanith Lee
1947 – 2015
Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also wrote a children's picture book, and many poems.
"I had not yet learned the lesson that when you are forever telling yourself that such and such is worth the price, then the price is too high and has been paid …"
Franz Kafka
1894 – 1924
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings.
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
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