/lit/ - Literature

Always loved his work, i actually get a lot out of it. Not understanding all the hate

>>2277770

Except it's not, retard.

He graduated with a doctorate of law in 1906 and he worked as an investigative insurance lawyer managing cases and litigation for people who were injured at their work.

Even if you don't think that qualifies as a 'real' lawyer (which it does, fuck you) there is no denying he had an academic knowledge of the machinations of the modern legal system.

why not Gregor Samsa?

The Trial is better, it's almost like in The Castle Kafka was trying to resolve the absurdity of the trial but it wasn't convincing for me.

But if you liked the trial then it's almost necessary that you read it.

What book would /lit/ recommend for a girl who enjoys classic gothic and dark fantasy literature?

She's already read the best parts of Wilde, Shelley and HP Lovecraft.

L'Etranger by Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

If you're talking about authors then probably Joyce and Kafka in my experience.

>>1598508

I'm czech, but I was born shortly after the liberation of central and eastern europe and the fall of the berlin wall.

However, my brothers and father all lived inside soviet czechoslovakia and yes you are right you become enthralled by because after the revolution or after you leave the country you read the newspaper and the world is completely new, all the lies and propaganda about western culture evaporates and with it everything you thought you knew about that half of the world. It's a tremendously powerful experience and I think of course if you are an intellectual like ZIzek then you consider more the power of popular culture as a tool for seeing the reality of a country.

I agree with this guy too, >>1598502 , as soon as there is a trickle of information about reality which can't be suppressed, like through music and other art, your conviction to understand it becomes even more tantalising i think.

and I wish I was in amsterdam. Instead I am studying now in Glasgow.

Franz Kafka, if only to troll exam markers.

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Albert Camus
Franz Kafka