“It is impossible to keep up!” At work our inbox is drowning, home is no better and our sparetime is spent keeping up our body and SoMe – even our holidays are packed with plans. How did we end up in this hamster wheel – and how do we get off!?

In his dreamlike novels and short stories the Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) captured the alienation that accompanies the modern while also addressing the existential questions of life