The fiction of Franz Kafka is the most obvious influence on Neighbors, an influence acknowledged by Berger himself.
The novel manages to capture the surrealistic or nightmarish tone of a Kafka story, which begins in an apparently realistic situation and moves to the farther reaches of the fantastic. Some other influences have already been suggested: the Tolstoy story, "The Death of Ivan Ilych," and.....
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