The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
Peter Wortsman
Arts Interview with Peter Wortsman: The German Imagination of Fear
“There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms’ tales to pierce the thin skin of civility and mainline the dark caverns of the collective unconscious.”
Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination
Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.