Kafka's universe fits the 21st century like a glove. A television series and an edition of the Czech writer's aphorisms commented by his biographer Reiner Stach inaugurate the centenary of the death of the author of 'The Metamorphosis' Stach places the creative biographical context with a Japanese calligrapher and escorism that reveals each aphorism with a seemingly impenetrable logic.

And he agrees with Milan Kundera in his scathing critique of Kafka: “Over the years Kafka painted an increasingly scathing picture of himself”