/lit/ - Literature

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

200 pages into my Kafka short story collection, here's how i'd rank them so far:

In The Penal Colony
The Metamorphosis
Description Of a Struggle
The Judgment
Wedding Preparations in the Country.

should I start with the trial or the castle?
already read the complete short stories

I want to read Kakfa.

Where should I start?

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
– Franz Kafka

Do you agree, /lit/?

I just read the Trial. I have a few questions.

1. Am I the only one who like his shorter works far better? It seems to me that the somewhat surreal world that Kafka can create is best experienced in small glimpses, when less is explained. At the later stages of the novel, it almost started to make too much sense.
2. With the above observation, am I missing the point of the Trial completely?
3. Is Kafka one of those authors where most of the meaning is lost in translation? I often worry about missing things when I read translated text.

>mfw im an inferior author to the mighty Tao Lin