>Metamorphosis
It describes the average whining LULZner.
Has anyone else noticed Franz Kafka and Khalil Gibron look alike? Kafka is a Turkic pagan who got converted into judaism from the distant orient and Gibron is a muslim camel jockey from the near orient.
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my mom says she really admires my tendency to accept constructive criticism. I probably have some sort of OCD
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Thank you anons
Kafka really is best in his short stories in my opinion, although his novels can be good, too (with The Castle probably being the best, better than The Trial which inexplicably gets all the fame). The Great Wall of China (or the sub-story The Imperial Message, reading like a parable), In the Penal Colony, The Warden of the Tomb, The Hunter Gracchus, The Hunger Artist, The Truth About Sancho Panza, The Silence of the Sirens, Prometheus, and more, many of which are a bit obscurer and not discussed as much as The Trial or The Metamorphosis are when people are speaking of Kafka, are all such great finely crafted little israeliteels, even when they’re a page long or shorter. He’s such a master at expressing the uncanny, as well as of inserting what feels like an otherworldly or transcendental significance into his tales, giving them the feeling of a parable. Apparently, some of his literature was influenced by his reading of israeli lore and tales (like the Mishnah, rabbinic commentaries, and he references the Kabbalah in one of his diary entries, speaking of his writing as possibly creating “a new secret doctrine, a Kabbalah” of sorts in the type of writing he was doing with The Castle).
Martin Buber’s “Tales of the Hasidim” is a good little book to get that gives you many tales with an unexpected similarity to Kafka’s style, but with more explicitly transcendental, of course. Borges is also strangely similar to him, at times (a work like “The Truth about Sancho Panza” is very proto-Borgesian). Ismail Kadare is a lesser-discussed writer on here, probably one of the most internationally acclaimed Albanian ones, who’s had much of his work translated and is often compared to Kafka. Some have called Philip K. Dick the sci-fi Kafka. Some Zen koans are definitely Kafkaesque, in a strange way.
Also, GOGOL. I was trying to think of him for a while, as I remember reading this writer who I immediately compared to a more upbeat, whimsical, explicitly humorous Kafka when first reading him, and the name came into my head. Unsure if Kafka ever read him but his greatest short stories like The Nose and The Overcoat are very proto-Kafka.
In the Penal Colony is perhaps one of his best short stories, but pretty long. Read it if you can.
Kafka is one of the first and greatest authors I read as a young man who got me into literary fiction. I have a deep affection for him. There’s a great old post I could dig up if the warosu archives hadn’t gone haywire, of a praiseful anon calling Kafka one of the greatest masters of creating the compelling image, the image that tells you an entire tale in itself when depicted in the story, like of the youthful, energetic leopard bursting with life at the end of The Hunger Artist, or the torture machine of In The Penal Colony. Too bad.
The Bible.
Why? I can just ask Jesus by praying.
Bot?
sucks
Who are you quoting and why does he think like that
My dad
He's quoting himself. He got filtered by Kafka and is now trying to show he is smart because he wants to go beyond Kafka.
No I really enjoy Kafka but I heard someone say he sucks and I figured they're probably right. Might try Gormenghast next
Paul Valery
Boris Vian
Georges Perec
Ok but why does he suck
Incel-coded
So you changed your opinion about him because of some dumb buzzword? I guess these are the consequences of being too open minded
>Metamorphosis
It describes the average whining LULZner.
Has anyone else noticed Franz Kafka and Khalil Gibron look alike? Kafka is a Turkic pagan who got converted into judaism from the distant orient and Gibron is a muslim camel jockey from the near orient.
what are you looking for? keep in mind this is a Games Morkshop and as a woman i refuse to tell you who really sucks
Kafka is a great writer
Try Robert Walser as well
Yep, Walser is a very similar and good rec.
Kafka really is best in his short stories in my opinion, although his novels can be good, too (with The Castle probably being the best, better than The Trial which inexplicably gets all the fame). The Great Wall of China (or the sub-story The Imperial Message, reading like a parable), In the Penal Colony, The Warden of the Tomb, The Hunter Gracchus, The Hunger Artist, The Truth About Sancho Panza, The Silence of the Sirens, Prometheus, and more, many of which are a bit obscurer and not discussed as much as The Trial or The Metamorphosis are when people are speaking of Kafka, are all such great finely crafted little israeliteels, even when they’re a page long or shorter. He’s such a master at expressing the uncanny, as well as of inserting what feels like an otherworldly or transcendental significance into his tales, giving them the feeling of a parable. Apparently, some of his literature was influenced by his reading of israeli lore and tales (like the Mishnah, rabbinic commentaries, and he references the Kabbalah in one of his diary entries, speaking of his writing as possibly creating “a new secret doctrine, a Kabbalah” of sorts in the type of writing he was doing with The Castle).
Martin Buber’s “Tales of the Hasidim” is a good little book to get that gives you many tales with an unexpected similarity to Kafka’s style, but with more explicitly transcendental, of course. Borges is also strangely similar to him, at times (a work like “The Truth about Sancho Panza” is very proto-Borgesian). Ismail Kadare is a lesser-discussed writer on here, probably one of the most internationally acclaimed Albanian ones, who’s had much of his work translated and is often compared to Kafka. Some have called Philip K. Dick the sci-fi Kafka. Some Zen koans are definitely Kafkaesque, in a strange way.
Also, GOGOL. I was trying to think of him for a while, as I remember reading this writer who I immediately compared to a more upbeat, whimsical, explicitly humorous Kafka when first reading him, and the name came into my head. Unsure if Kafka ever read him but his greatest short stories like The Nose and The Overcoat are very proto-Kafka.
In the Penal Colony is perhaps one of his best short stories, but pretty long. Read it if you can.
Kafka is one of the first and greatest authors I read as a young man who got me into literary fiction. I have a deep affection for him. There’s a great old post I could dig up if the warosu archives hadn’t gone haywire, of a praiseful anon calling Kafka one of the greatest masters of creating the compelling image, the image that tells you an entire tale in itself when depicted in the story, like of the youthful, energetic leopard bursting with life at the end of The Hunger Artist, or the torture machine of In The Penal Colony. Too bad.
my mom says she really admires my tendency to accept constructive criticism. I probably have some sort of OCD
Thank you anons
I do wish Kafka was a bit more diverse in the themes he wrote on, but the ones he did cover he did so very well
>"Kafka sucks"
Don't read
Read some of Leo Tolstoy's short stories.