Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the best writers of modernism. He was a
neo-romanticist, expressionist and surrealist. The existentialists considered
him as their writer of atheism, dread, angst and alienation. The parishioners of
the Theatre of the Absurd spoke of him as a writer who spoke of the
purposelessness of life. Of course, Kafka was both and he was more than that.