This small book contains almost everything that Walter Benjamin wrote about Kafka. People who knew Benjamin had no doubt that Kafka was “his” author (like Proust or Baudelaire). Studying Kafka runs through the entire creative activity of the thinker, and this attraction can hardly be considered accidental. It has already been noted in the literature that Benjamin—mostly rather subconsciously—saw a kindred spirit in Kafka, searching for motifs in his works that were close to himself, and applying definitions to the writer’s work that, to one degree or another, can be used to characterize the writer himself. researcher. As Hannah Arendt wrote, Benjamin “did not have to read Kafka to think like Kafka.”