/lit/ - Literature

>imitate literary fairy tale form (Kunstmärchen) from German Romantic tradition
>remove joy
>add stress sadomasochism, alienation, futility

>imitate style from Swiss author Robert Walser
>remove innocence
>add obscurity, self-loathing, wretchedness

Presto — Kafka

The only reason we don't immediately call him out for being a hack, like so many German-speaking critics did during his purported "rise to fame," is that the Anglo world is still deprived of the translations by German Romantic literary geniuses like Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Ludwig Achim von Arnim, and others. We've only recently seen new translations of Robert Walser.

Anyone who claims Kafka Goblino is a sui generis of literature has been hoodwinked by critics who've either purposefully obscured his thefts or are ignorant of the German culture he soiled.

Never fall for it!