Who is Franz Kafka from The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays and what is their importance?

Franz Kafka is a German short story and novel writer whose work is characterized by the surreal and inexplicable events which happen in them. According to Camus, Kafka's works are intentionally written in a manner which obscures their meaning in order to force the reader to read them over several times. The characteristic of Kafka's work Camus finds most interesting is what he describes as "naturalness."