Franz Kafka asserts that impactful books should disrupt and provoke introspection, rather than merely comfort. We read for many reasons: to learn, to escape, to fill quiet moments. But rarely do we stop and ask what a book should truly do to us.Franz Kafka had a clear answer."A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."— Franz Kafka, Diaries (1922)Kafka didn't write that line as a compliment to literature.