It's Kafka's World

We just live in it.

Bloom on Kafka (from Genius):

His larger fictions--The Trial and The Castle--do not challenge Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Joyce's Ulysses, or even Mann's The Magic Mountain. And yet one thinks of the twentieth century as the era of Kafka and Freud, rather than of Proust and Joyce.

In an age of great originals, Proust and Joyce the foremost, Kafka is more original than the originals, who according to Emerson are never original.