His work is wonderful. I first heard of him through Cynthia Ozick, who wrote a book called "The Messiah of Stockholm" about a young man who learns of Schulz's (real) missing work, "The Messiah", and decides that he is Schulz's lost son. It contains the wonderful line, "What a fright your mother got. When she was pregnant with you, I mean. An assault by the higher forms of literature."
I can understand the Kafka comparisons but for me Schulz is unique: his work is totally self-contained and lushly beautiful. I don't really find it dark.
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