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Who influenced Franz Kafka?

  • Gustave Flaubert

    French novelist (1821–1880)

    Influenced 14

    Influenced by 0

  • Robert Walser

    Swiss writer (1878–1956)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • Heinrich von Kleist

    German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Franz Kafka?

  • Albert Camus

    French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)

    Influenced 27

    Influenced by 13

  • John Updike

    American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 22

  • Hannah Arendt

    German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 22

  • Haruki Murakami

    Japanese writer (born 1949)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 7

  • Philip Roth

    American novelist (1933-2018)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 30

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    American author

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 15

  • Saul Bellow

    Canadian-American writer

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 14

  • Charles Bukowski

    German-American writer (1920–1994)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 19

  • Ilse Aichinger

    Austrian writer

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • Eugène Ionesco

    Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • Jonathan Lethem

    American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 26

  • Peter Handke

    Nobel laureate in Literature & Austrian writer, playwright and film director

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 5

  • Alex Epstein

    Israeli writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • André Ourednik

    Swiss-Czech geographer and writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Bernard Lahire

    French sociologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13

  • China Miéville

    English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 19

  • Daniel Handler

    American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7

  • Dmitry Glukhovsky

    Russian writer and journalist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • Hakusui Aoji

    Japanese scholar of German literature

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Hugo Bergmann

    Israeli philosopher born in Austria-Hungary (1883-1975)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 14

  • Ian McEwan

    British author

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • Irakli Lomouri

    Georgian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Javier Cercas

    Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Jonathan Franzen

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13

  • Mark Fisher

    British cultural theorist (1968-2017)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Sorin Cerin

    Romanian philosopher, poet, logician and essayist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 16

  • Tezer Özlü

    Turkish writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Zaza Burchuladze

    Georgian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9