 This is in what consists the so strange, so profoundly religiously harrowing of Kafka’s world removed from God: this world is not seen from the perspective of the world, from life, it is seen from the perspective of God, the law, measured and judged according to it. […] The presentation of his God-forsaken world, immersed into nothing in its whole painful and sinister truth is ultimately nothing else but the presentation of his messianic longing. (GK 364; translated RPE 69)