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Axe for the Frozen Sea

"But we need 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 within us. That is my belief." ― Franz Kafka
I've recently been looking into the reading habits of prominent authors and came across the linked post. This list was compiled in representation of some of the authors favoured by Kafka himself, based on Max Brod's 'Franz Kafka: A Biography'.
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Rudolf Kassner
Rudolf Kassner
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Emil Strauss
Emil Strauss
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Wilhelm Schäfer
Wilhelm Schäfer
3
Hans Carossa
Hans Carossa
4
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
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Stefan George
Stefan George
6
Heinrich Von Kleist
Heinrich Von Kleist
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
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Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
10
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
11
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
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Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel
13
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane
14
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
15
Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter
16
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
17
Robert Walser
Robert Walser
18
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
19
Ernst Weiss
Ernst Weiss
20
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
21
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
22
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
23
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen
24
Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin
25
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová
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