if not Kafka, who is your favourite author?

Mine is Eichendorff

 

none?

 

i am sad that you ignore such an innocent question

 

Sydney Carter

 

what has she written?

 

Firstly let me say he was a man. He wrote hymns, poems, and several prose books as well. I quite like the book, Rock of Doubt.

Anyway here is a sample.

Box of Matches
Sydney Carter

My box of matches
can amaze the night:
the darkness cannot
comprehend the light.

Blackness, oblivion
and death require
no explanation
but this stab of fire

Strikes at the root
of probability.
That light, or anything,
could ever be

Is most improbable;
but here I stand
holding a box of matches
in my hand.

And all my faith and all my
logic spring
from this first, sudden and
unlikely thing.​

 

James Fenimore Cooper

 

For me, it's a tie between J.R.R. Tolkien and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

 

Hermann Hesse