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Favourite Kafka short story and novel?

>> No.11900304

>>11900297
pretty sure i saw ontologicool irl? she tall

>short story
in the penal colony

>novel
the castle

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>>11900297
GOD DAMMIT I'M SO HORNY AND LONELY


AAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.11900333

kafkaesque? what happened to her?

>> No.11900339

>>11900297
The Judgement fucked me up pretty good. And scenes from a country doctor have stuck with me in this weird way...when I think of that story I feel like I’m recalling a vivid nightmare I actually had at some indistinct point in the past.

>> No.11900364

>>11900333
She has an oncoming message from an emperor that will never arrive

>> No.11900366

>>11900304
fpbp

>> No.11900381

>>11900333
She turned into vermin

>> No.11900384

>>11900332
based

>>11900297
castle

>> No.11900385

reading The Judgment was one of the decisive literary experiences of my youth

A Country Doctor and The Burrow are my current favorite stories

The Castle is my favorite novel, I re-read it recently and was surprised how funny it is

>> No.11900388

>>11900304
>in the penile colony

>> No.11900396

>>11900333
i thought for something to be kafkaesque you had to not notice it. or is it the people around you dont notice

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>>11900332

>> No.11900483

>novel
I like Amerika best because it's his funniest and comfy in a weird way. It also has some pretty melancholic and sad moments that really got to me.

>short
To avoid the obvious answers, I'd go with Unglücklichsein, a very early short story of his. The title roughly translates to Being Unhappy but I don't think that's the usual English translation. "Give it up!", although very short, is also among my favorites.

>> No.11900545

"Der Kübelreiter"
(don't know the english title)

for best "novel" I'd say trial, since it is the most complete.

>> No.11900552

>>11900297
>short story
A Hunger Artist
>novel
The Trial

>> No.11900598

>>11900333
She awoke from terrible dreams to find herself transformed into a monstrous vermin

>> No.11900638

>>11900333
She went on a diet

>> No.11900687

>>11900333
its an insectoid

>> No.11900690

Kafka's shorter pieces are really bad.

>> No.11901882

>>11900333
If you squint you can actually see an exoskeleton growing out of her body

>> No.11901905

>>11900297
>short story
Couriers
>novel
The Trial

>> No.11901912

>>11900690
Parables and Paradoxes is lit

>> No.11902226

>>11900297
Do translations matter much when reading him compared to someone like the Russians where people argue endlessly?

>> No.11902358

>>11900333
She was stopped from entering The Law.

>> No.11902432

>>11902358
I appreciate this comment