Here are some Kafka links that are worth looking at:
http://www.kafka.org/
http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/intro.html
http://www.dividingline.com/private/Philosophy/Philosophers/Kafka/kafka.shtml
Consider this quote from Kafka, from the last site noted:
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us...We need the kind of books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." --Franz Kafka
