Igor Ivanovich Garin. Prophets and poets (№ 430096)

No, Kafka is not passivity, rather the opposite: a heightened awareness of activity, activism, frantic vitality, resourcefulness, the energy of evil. Good is not absent, but it is too puny and lifeless to enter into battle on equal terms. His defeat in a mass society is inevitable. The entire history of mass societies is the history of his defeat.