Illness and Kafka

Travelling to Kafka's hometown in 2006.


Kafka understood that travel, sex, and books are paths that lead nowhere except to the loss of the self, and yet they must be followed and the self must be lost, in order to find it again, or to find something, whatever it may be - a book, an expression, a misplaced object - in order to find anything at all, a method, perhaps, and, with a bit of luck, the new, which has been there all along.

Roberto Bolano, from "Literature + Illness = Illness".