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Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a Prague-born writer who viewed reality as an experience of surreality mixed with menace, and his literary output mixes the absurd and malevolent in an entertaining yet uncomfortable fashion. His background as an insurance assessor gave him plenty of access to the courts and legal systems he savaged in his books, especially The Trial.

Our own age has seen Kafka’s fears writ large. There are times when only the word ‘kafkaesque’ can be used to describe the sinister and bizarre activities of bureaucracies everywhere.