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Kafka was a genius writer and his work has my highest respect.

The anguish that he felt, in writing as well as in life, is exactly what made his work so great. The absurd eagerness to continually perform and deliver, in a world which makes so little sense and where all meaning is relative, is what made his books so human.

I'm not surprised that his books were difficult to write. They are also difficult to read. They feel like swimming in mud with no clear direction, under immense pressure from others arbitrarily chosen, only to realize in the end you were going in circles. That is what makes them profoundly human. I don't think his work would have had the same impact if it was not imprinted by the same kind of anguish that made writing it so difficult.