Problematika literarnozgodovinske umestitve Kafkovih besedil

Attempts at the literary classification of Kafka's texts often prove to be problematic. Most authors are at a loss, so they propose more than classification. The problem of the literary classification of Kafka's texts is treated only in a few German literary encyclopedias and in interpretations and analyses of his texts. In the interpretations and literary analyses Kafka is mostly classified as a Modernist, but some authors see him as a Postmodernist. Most German literary historians and encyclopedia writers are caught in a dilemma about this subject and so propose more than one literary classification: Kafka is assigned to Expressionism and also proclaimed as a representative of the Existentialism, Surrealism or Magic realism. However most German literary historians often assign Kafka to the Expressionism on historical grounds