[2][3][4] The price was 30 million crowns, paid by the investor CPI Property Group together with the adjacent Quadrio complex.

[5] The kinetic sculpture is 10.6 metres tall and made of 42 rotating stainless steelpanels weighting 24 tonnes in total.

When viewers look at the visually attractive and technologically perfect sculpture, they miss the lost and brooding soul of Franz Kafka.

[9] Others disagree, arguing that the complexity of the steel panels and the change of form of the statue in time captures Kafka's work quite well.

The statue attracts lots of visitors, so it has increased Kafka's presence in Prague.