/lit/ - Literature

Was his literature an expression of human guilt, an oedipal neurosis, or something third entirely?

>tfw just realized I'm a gay furry whose fetishes include bondage and latex

What is some literature to help me understand this? I know this sounds like another shitpost, but I'm serious. Human sexuality is a common theme throughout literature, but I can't think of any literary work that deal specifically with strange fetishes.

Pic related. Kafka subscribed to weird fetish porn that included illustrations of bestiality. Proust was a coomer who got off to torturing rats. Joyce, as we know from his love letters to his wife, was into farts and fuck farts. Why didn't these genius writers use their work to explore these areas of themselves?

>>14251767

Being a furfag is just like being gay. There's nothing wrong with it inherently. You can enjoy the porn in your own time (provided you're not showing signs of addiction). The real problem is associating with the community, which is both literally and figuratively cancer. As long as you're distanced from them you can still be not cringe.

His stories are literally just self-pity greentexts

why did he never get accepted into any publication? dude was one of us and they all just wanted chad writers?

>People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
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>2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.
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>Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
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>This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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>Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.
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Don't be so hard on yourself, bro. You're ok
:,(

fuck you, dad

>>9739820
>>9739831
i wonder who's behind this

ITT: great writers present their material to a creative writing class and we're the other students critiquing him

>"Kafka, don't you think we need some sort of explanation why Gregor turned into a bug? It just isn't believable that he'd turn into one for no reason. Also, that ending is just too depressing. Can't his family learn to tolerate his change and eventually love him or something?"

This nigga fucked me up in my teens. Existential dread.

I'll start with this whiny piece of shit

>And then... HE'S FOUND GUILTY! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Any other books like this?

Why is it that the characters in Kafka's stories never seem to actually question the situations they're in? Why are they always helpless, desperate, or compliant rather than angry or defiant?

>On one occasion, about a month after Gregor's metamorphosis
What a cunt

>>9285219

Why are there no paragraph breaks in his books?

Where do I go after Kafka? I've read all of his works and I'm wondering where I could go from here.

>>9003134
>not being acquainted with the mysteries of an artistic mind

Hello /lit, i just got a 20$ Gift Card and would appreciate some recommendations.
Pic related is my favourite author; I also enjoyed some works from Dostojewski, Borges and Gogol

How is it even possible for The Metamorphosis to be so good but for The Trial to be so bad?

>dude it like, makes no sense, lmao
Obviously, that much was apparent by page one. If Kafka's goal was to waste a load of time on a story that goes nowhere to make the reader feel what K. was feeling then well done, I'm truly very frustrated with that.

Was he a good writer?