/lit/ - Literature

I keep coming back to him. Why? Feels like i'm stuck being a moronic teenager. Any good recommendations to get away from Kafka? I feel like it only adds to my depression.

>>15663500
I like that the author openly admits the power that women know their emotional outbursts have, yet is internationally lauded for a book of arguments revolving exclusively around that.
I have to give the powers that be credit for continuing to baffle me with the development du jour even after I thought I couldn't get more jaded.

Who is the best Kafka translator?

Kafka wrote a bunch of stories from the viewpoint or about animals.

>The Metamorphosis
>"Investigations of a Dog"
>"The Burrow"
>"Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk"
>"A Crossbreed"
and others I might've missed.

Which of them are your favourite? Least favourite? Does he rely on this cliche too much, of estranging or critiquing some element of humanity by putting it in the mouth (and body) of an animal?

What is your interpretation of this story?

It seems like a bundle of contradictions that Kafka doesn't want to resolve. She's a singer who can't sing. Her whisper singing isn't any better than anyone else's (they shush a young mouse who dares to sing along despite being just as good) but they glorify her for some reason. But they don't glorify her because they are independent and don't valorize any single individual. Yet they are willing to risk their lives for her music.

And then she just disappears into mythology. Is that the clue to this story? That this is what mythology would sound like to a contemporary of the myth (mundane, nonsensical) if they had actually lived through it?

What's your interpretation of this story?

Is it a story of alienation so far gone that you are alienated from your humanity and body because of capitalism and become a bugman? Why did it happen to him at that time though? He seemed to enjoy his work and all its tediousness despite having an overbearing boss. He liked being able to provide for his family, displacing his father and assuming the patriarchal position.

What's the significance of beetleboy having an almost incestuous obsession with his sister? Thinking that she could seduce his boss when he came. Wanting to kiss her neck after the violin performance. The ending where their parents realize that she's a babe worthy of marriage only after they've lost their cockblocking son.

What was the meaning of this story?

Was the torture machine a symbol of religion that inscribes meaning on the body of those who submit at the cost of their life? The machine was in decay and irrelevant but it seems strange that the traveler, who barely was a character, could more or less cause its downfall with just his presence.

Why does this guy have so much drip

A Hunger Artist

What was the trial about?

>>10330076
but dad I am going to be a write just like Camus! I want to craft thousands upon thousands of beautiful stories. Ones that capture emotions. Hardships and lessons. Ones that could be applicable to this day in age and the possible future. I want to be an artist dad! I want to capture the essence of humanity and create with it for other so I won't be so dead inside.

ITT: better than Shakespeare

These are the elites. The rare writers who, through raw genius and will, were able to intellectually and artistically surpass the most famous writer in the history of language

>tfw you're browsing the recommended literature section and there's no Kafka
What did they mean by this /lit/?

Why did he use so many semicolons? Or is this a normal German literary style?

>In den Zeiten des häuslichen Lebens weiche ich ihm aus, vermeide sogar den Gang, der zu ihm führt, in seinen letzten Ausläufern zu begehen; es ist auch gar nicht leicht, dort herumzuwandern, denn ich habe dort ein volles kleines Zickzackwerk von Gängen angelegt; dort fing mein Bau an, ich durfte damals noch nicht hoffen, ihn je so beenden zu können wie er in meinem Plane dastand, ich begann halb spielerisch an diesem Eckchen und so tobte sich dort die erste Arbeitsfreude in einem Labyrinthbau aus, der mir damals die Krone aller Bauten schien, den ich aber heute wahrscheinlich richtiger als allzu kleinliche, des Gesamtbaues nicht recht würdige Bastelei beurteile, die zwar theoretisch vielleicht köstlich ist – hier ist der Eingang zu meinem Haus, sagte ich damals ironisch zu den unsichtbaren Feinden und sah sie schon sämtlich in dem Eingangslabyrinth ersticken – in Wirklichkeit aber eine viel zu dünnwandige Spielerei darstellt, die einem ernsten Angriff oder einem verzweifelt um sein Leben kämpfenden Feind [88] kaum widerstehen wird.

How can you make entertaining and worth while videos on philosophy and literature on YouTube? Would you watch something like that?

Kafka is cool, picture is just there.

"In the struggle between you and the world, take the side of the world."

What did he mean by that?

I think Kafka one of the few writers whose fictional work actually suffers because it's written as fiction. Guy can't develop characters for shit. At what point am I supposed to be able to relate to Josef K.?

>And then... HE TURNS INTO A A COCKROACH! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH! THEY'LL EAT THIS SHIT UP

>The Kafkaesque

>"I must be loyle to my capo"

Should I pick an author and read his work and then move on to another author, or read random books that I think will be interesting? Should I start with Kafka if I choose the first method?

How did this emotionally unstable fuck get so many women?

I need to know his secrets.

In The Penal Colony.
Why did the Traveller think that it was a good idea for The Officer to kill himself in the machine ?

>If the judicial process to which the Officer clung was really so close to the point of being cancelled—possibly as a result of the intervention of the Traveller, something to which he for his part felt duty-bound—then the Officer was now acting in a completely correct manner. In his place, the Traveller would not have acted any differently.