/lit/ - Literature

In the Penile Colony

>>3864865
Do you know if this has Investigations of a Dog in it? Or, do you know a decent collection that does? Someone suggested this was the best of his stories, but I haven't been able to find it.

I like a lot of Kafka's parables more than his short stories, though
>These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.

>There are four legends concerning Prometheus:
>According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed.
>According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.
>According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, the gods forgotten, the eagles, he himself forgotten.
>According to the fourth, every one grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily.
>There remained the inexplicable mass of rock.--The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable.

http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/poseidon.htm

I don't think Bright Lights, Big City is about anxiety, but it deals with some depressive themes. I don't know if it's easier to relate to because the character is "you"; it's written in the second person. A good read, though.

One Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
The Capital - Karl Marx
Nationalism and Culture - Rudolf Rocker
Modern World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein

The Good Soldier Svjek is one of the best pieces of Czech humor, though it might be getting a bit dated. (It's set in WWI). Might as well read some Václav Havel but I don't know much of anything about him, honestly.

maybe some Czech shoegaze while you're at it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXLIr0V2jRM&feature=player_embedded

I would want to meet Franz Kafka and/or William S. Burroughs. Both of them seem like they would be great to talk to.

>this guy is now one of my favorite people

It's cold as fuck there, bro.

Do you hope to illustrate the amount of emotional and ideological disparity that these individuals are going through in a statist society that would lead them to take up such an unfeasible, hostile environment to survive in? As if surviving in Antarctica was a better life than living in an industrial nation? What kind of freedom does base survival offer? Why does Wal-Mart and Individual-Mandated Healthcare injure these people so much?

Also, it's cold as fuck there, bro.

ITT: movies that could perfectly be a book
books that could perfectly be a movie

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Contemplation is my favourite collection of his short stories.

The Judgement was so unbelievably good I re-read it next day. I can't really explain why, but I adore it to the fullest extent.

Top 5 Books written in the past 10 years.
GO.

>>2481614
Hahaha. Oh man that made me have a good laugh. I must be stupid.

>>2461680
Hahaha nice

ni estudia, ni trabaja; NEET; freeter; basement dweller---youth poverty in the 21st century is a dynamic that will perhaps one day be reflected in popular literature. I am looking for examples in extant works of fiction. Down and Out in London and Paris is a good example..but are there more? Have any contemporary Japanese authors explored this phenomenon? This is not for school, I am in fact NEET