| The notices were extraordinary, one critic from the Literary Review describing Wallace as a cross between Franz Kafka and David Lynch. |
| Compare then the words of Franz Kafka and William Faulkner to the half-baked notions of the end of history and the clash of civilizations. |
| Nothing sticks so fast in the mind as a groundless sense of guilt, Kafka told his friend. |
| It's not for nothing that this laureate of embarrassment is an ardent admirer of Kafka. |
| Kafka never touches ground, he never deigns to offer you the clue to the maze. |
| I thought it was going to be some soppy 1930's romantic comedy and while it wasn't exactly Kafka it was better than I was expecting. |
