John Fowles vs. Franz Kafka
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Fowles
1926 – 2005
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
"Narcissism: when one grows too old to believe in one's uniqueness, one falls in love with one's complexity."
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."
Connections
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