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Pictured is the `Statue of Franz Kafka`, a sculpture by artist Jaroslav Róna that was installed on Vězeňská street in the Jewish Quarter of Prague, Czech Republic in December 2003. It depicts Franz Kafka riding on the shoulders of a headless figure, in reference to the author`s 1912 story `Description of a Struggle`. Franz Kafka was a German speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as on of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.