Kafka wrote bedtime stories in the sense that he wrote about the terrifying things that might happen in bed. No sooner has the father in “The Judgment” pulled the covers high over his shoulders than he condemns his son to death by drowning; the doctor in “A Country Doctor” is tucked in by the villagers […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/descriptions-of-a-struggle-the-diaries-franz-kafka/