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Holy shit.
Why isn't this talked about more?

>> No.12416387

This is like the 5th time I’ve seen it mentioned this week. It’s pretty well known. It’s just not memed like other books

>> No.12416396
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>>12416380
>NYRB

>> No.12416398

>>12416380
Because it's about two gay dudes.

>> No.12416412

>>12416396
>not liking manly books like Di Benedetto's Zama or Cendrars' Moravagine
never gonna make it

>> No.12416448

>>12416380
Germans are weird
>life is so tough in 1920’s Weimar Germany
>ex con
>employed
>fat and well fed
>drinks pretty regularly
>girlfriend after girlfriend

Weimar Berlin sounds like fucking paradise to me

>> No.12416466

>>12416396
jesus christ, please kill yourself. Don't shit on NYRB classics just because hipsters like to post pictures of the books on instagram.

>> No.12416482

>>12416448
Was Hitler ironically the Joker?

>> No.12416497

>>12416412
>>12416466
Mirin that s.oy

>> No.12416543

Has anyone seen based Fassbinder’s adaptation of it into a tv series?

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>>12416448
It must be difficult to try and relate to art on a deeper level when you're too autistic to empathize with others or imagine lives even slightly dissimilar to your own

>> No.12416562

>>12416482
At one point Franz is talking to the husband of a woman he borderline raped and he thinks to himself 'what a cuck'.
Made me wonder if Michael Hoffman is /oneofus/

>> No.12416566

>>12416497
?

>> No.12416974

>>12416448
>country lost a war and is made to feel like shit about it
>economic troubles
>political instability
yeah sounds like paradise to me

>> No.12416991

>>12416543
I haven’t. But out of the 5 or 6 movies I’ve seen by him there’s not one that I found remotely interesting, they are all shit.

>> No.12417020

>>12416974
>Boohoo I'm literally a country.

>> No.12417681

>>12416466
thats exactly why they get shit on

>> No.12417785

>>12416991
Out of curiosity which did you see?

>> No.12417832

>>12416380
Well I'd like to know what you guys think: why exactly does Death reject Franz? It was explained along 5 pages or so but wasn't made clearer.

>> No.12418026

>>12416543
Yes, it's fantastic