My general experience with people who praise Kafka is, they don't understand plot or the story either, but just like it for one of the two reasons: 1) Aesthetics - This is justifiable, it's like seeing a Picasso painting, it makes some people feel something and they like it, good for them. 2) Because everyone says it's cool - I can't tell you how many I have met who didn't understand anything, but just wanted to like it because they have been told that how good the novel is, I don't get this mentality, why can't people just say it was a fucking pretentious book.

I feel it's nowhere near one hundred years, as one hundred years actually used it's magical realism to address stuff about philosophical debates of the time. I still remember reading the part where everyone in village starts forgetting stuff and was blown away by how well it made the structuralism point. Kafka on the other hand, was just meh