Franz Kafka:

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description.

— Franz Kafka Modern

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

Context

Letter to Milena Jesenská

Date / Period

1920

Source

https://www.kafka-online.info/kafka-letters.html

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Explanation

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Method

Cross Reference

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