/lit/ - Literature

>Hermann is described by the biographer Stanley Corngold as a "huge, selfish, overbearing businessman"[16] and by Franz Kafka as "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature".[17]
>Writes a story about a son who turns into a bug that repulses his family, and who is eventually completely neglected and left to die.
Really makes you think.
If he had written this today, it'd probably be considered lolcow fanfic tier.

>>18747755
>Vs. the Normalfag Absurdist

Are there any writers whose writing you can't stand but you find their life fascinating?
For me: Pic related, his diaries and letters are extremely interesting

Where do I start.
I've read only The Metamorphosis.

Is Kafka's Amerika worth reading? I read Metamorphosis and The Trial but I found them a bit boring, will I get bored while reading this?

>>16573620

>tfw genuinely love the Jews
Old testament is best testament. Sucks that the Socialist Zionist tradition was completely dead by the 60s.

>>14704913
A poet and scientist, and a failure; rational but full of unnatural hope (he knows the price of the future because he already paid more than he possessed). Empty, and yet focused to keep the lives of others in balance. Ultimately, a great fool in disguise.

Any writers similar to him? He's the only writer I can really stand, that gives me the sense that in some way their writings are on a similar wavelength to me. No horror, please.

Zizek killing it

I was never an edgelord reactionary

>>11316406

Why is Kafka considered a genius? His work is alright, but not GOAT as a lot of people say it is. Is there something I'm missing?