Almost all Kafka's major novels were published during this period, but their response was after the 1930s and 40s. Doblin and Wafer, two other important novelists, the former's representative novel Berlin-Alexandria Square was born in the late 1920s, while the latter's representative novel Mussada Forty Days didn't come out until 1933 (Wafer is not only a poet, dramatist and novelist, but also an activist in the expressionist movement). Therefore, from the perspective of literary history, from the "stamina" and far-reaching influence of the works, the achievements of expressionist novels can be said to be the greatest, because writers like Kafka are not only the leaders of expressionism, but also one of the main founders of modern literature in the East and the West in this century. In this way, we can't ignore two Austrian literary giants-robert musil and Herman Bloch. They all spent their thirties and forties in the climax of expressionism, but their main works were not born until the thirties and forties, or even published until the fifties. However, as far as their pursuit of philosophical character and the application of modern expression techniques are concerned, it is impossible for these two writers to fully understand their background if it is not related to expressionism. Two of the "five masterpieces" of modern German literature regarded as classics by some western critics were written by these two writers, namely, Musil's trilogy A Man Without Personality (1930- 1942) and Bloch's masterpiece The Death of Virgil (1945). The latter is simply a stream of consciousness novel, and the rise of stream of consciousness as a creative means is the result of expressionism first introducing Freud's psychoanalysis into literature. It is from this perspective that some people classify the Irish novelist Joyce as an expressionist school. In this way, the scale and intensity of expressionist novels will be even greater. What's more, in addition to these resounding names, there are a number of expressionists or writers related to expressionism, such as Ed Schmidt, Einstein, Broder (Kafka's friend) and early Leonhard Frank, Otto Flach and Flantz Jung. In addition, there are some "amphibious writers", such as Bain, Sternheim, Skicker, rusk Schuler and Tao.
Geographically, expressionism is an international trend of thought, and Western Europe and Eastern Europe have also been affected. For example, the Italian Nobel Prize in Literature winner Pirandello is a dramatist with expressionist characteristics, and his play Six Dramatists Looking for Authors has won world fame. Expressionism has a bigger market in eastern Europe. Wavell and Kafka, the leaders of the expressionist movement mentioned above, are both Czechs. In the Czech Republic (geographically speaking, the Czech Republic belongs to Central Europe, where the old concept of geopolitics is adopted), Capec is also a writer deeply influenced by expressionism. His novels, especially his famous play Russell Universal Robot, have obvious expressionist characteristics and belong to the representative works of the modern world. In the United States, especially in the United States, there have been several recognized expressionist dramatists: O 'Neill, Kaufman, Rice and so on. O 'Neill's emperor jones, Brown the Great God and Hairy Ape are all masterpieces of expressionism, which are familiar to domestic readers. Expressionism has also aroused repercussions in the East, including China. For example, Guo Moruo once said that the fragmentation thought of expressionism found the "most suitable cultural medium" in his fragmented mind at that time. In fact, some of his poems in Goddess, such as Tiangou and Standing on the Edge of the Earth, can be regarded as typical expressionist poems. In addition, Lu Xun's novel A Madman's Diary and Cao Yu's drama Yuan Ye have obvious expressionist traces.