What does it mean?
The best books shake us and break through our numb, everyday feelings, the way an axe breaks ice.
Who said it?
Franz Kafka: Czech-born German-language novelist (1883–1924). Source: Letter to Oskar Pollak (1904).
Reading & books– Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak (1904)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”