Oh man, I am coo-coo for Kafka - love it so much, so amazingly written, combining quirky humor with relentless vexation, never quite hopeless, but then again there's no reason for hope, either, as he might say. Great stuff. If you've ever used the word Kafkaesque --and who hasn't?-- you owe it to yourself to read this or The Castle, IMO, YMMV, etc.