Kafka, a Great of German literature whose work reveals his tortured soul. Thanks for this synopsis of the novel. I hope it will inspire many to read it. It is a very unsettling book, and such I have always found it difficult to read, but it is a masterpiece.
Here is a statue by Jaroslav Róna in Prague. It is based on his novel "America" and conveys the weirdness, for want of a better word, of Kafka's work.