/lit/ - Literature

>>6106404
I can't help but to think of that Phoenix Wright Lawyer when I see that cover.

Guilty of not giving a fuck

>>6107451
Wouldn't have mattered, he thought that Marxism was inevitable.

>>6106922
That intro paragraph is what got me hooked right away. Its probably a good indicator to whether you will enjoy the rest of the book or not.

>>6107343
nope, we are probably just generalizing ourselves

We need a subject of discussion though, how about German authors born in the 19th century?

Skinny white boys from Anglo countries.

The 'awkward silence' is a spook, just ignore it and it will go away

>>6105948
I don't think he wanted to return, he wanted to pass through it to a new era

The stories do kinda stand on their own but there are some themes that connect them all.

You already mentioned death which is one, the last story called The Dead is a fitting finale.

It's typically difficult to find any philosopher difficult. It helps to know a bit more of where he is coming from. Hegel was a big influence on him even if his views were just a reaction to him

I think its mostly just a cultural thing that changes over time depending on what the current society judges as Important to their culture. Yesterdays low culture might be considered todays high culture.

Its would have just been another one of those things that you just ignored but people continue to bring it up because they want to be able to claim that its "Blind psychotic racism defended by patriotism"

The Oxford dictionary?

>>6104234
Have you looked into Stoner? I just picked it up recently and I have a feeling its one of those books.

Pretty much every book except American Psycho and perhaps A Clockwork Orange.

>>6103622
he is a writer and philosopher. He also wrote short fictions under a different pseudonym

Not for the light of heart

My school encouraged this practice growing up but I never got into it myself. mostly because they were all crummy library books with the final couple of pages already eaten out of it by the previous owners.

I feel the same way about Finnegans Wake, its too complex to just read it on surface level and comprehend it but if you spend a minute going into each word you will be astonished by the things Joyce managed to do..

>>6104312
Memetics

If you understood those other books what didn't you get about the metamorphosis? Its typical Kafka. Try to imagine the story as if Gregor actually just got some crippling disease or something. It could be about how his family using him to bring in money while not actually caring about him, even before the transformation. The guilt of him feeling as if he is just a burden on the family and the way they treat him just makes it an absurd story. Its open to a lot of interpretation.

memes are ways of spreading things like books. what is your definition of a meme?

Confessions of a Mask was in the Gay Fiction section of my library, you should check that out.