/lit/ - Literature

>>16600087
You're in no positon to make a claim like that if you haven't read it in German.

I'm a PICKLE ROACH MORTY!!!! Pickle ROACH!!!
Funniest shit I've ever read.

>>16600087
the ending pissed me off

>>16600087
Idk if it's a 10/10 but it is very good. It's about self-loathing btw.

>>16600116
FIltered.

>>16600087
Need to give it a re-read, felt like some of it went over my head on my first read
Also why didn’t the sister ever say “nod your head if you can understand me”? Seems like that’d be a natural experiment to try

>>16600087
that book fucking sucks lmao kafka was shit

I feel bad but I always laugh when his mother works up the courage to go in the room, then faints immediately because he’s crawling on the ceiling

>>16600320
the book is pretty hilarious overall

>>16600087

when he was musing about his wage slavery, i totally saw myself

>Are ya winning son?

>>16600087
Kafka was a cuck, his best idea was hiding his pathetic bullshit. but then again, even that was too difficult it seems
read it, in german

>>16600344
Kafka is said to have laughed often when reading his work to his friends

Why should I read it in german

>>16601834
If you are able you should read a work in its original language

>>16600116
The ending is the best part. This is ultimately a story of betrayal more than anything else.

Far from Kafkas best work. I've just read it this year as a 27 years old NEET and I thought it's the worst work I've read from him. Read in german also, I'm german for all that matters. I mean I understood what's the appeal after studying, working and moving back to my parents house now while having no motivation to do anything. Yet, I think this is not a good depiction of what's going on. The whole parable went totally over my head. After all it's just badly written. Kafkas The Castle and The Trial are much more kafkaesque.

>>16601834
He was a master of German and used it in clever ways that make it very hard to translate his intentions and sense of style. His writing is purposefully obfuscatory in prose as well as content and he plays on words in a way that is hard to translate properly.

Mark Harman talks about the specifics pretty extensively in the preface to his translation of The Castle.

truly sad how his family depends on his income and has to change their lifestyle to keep their place. wouldn't say it's a 10/10 but definitely an interesting concept of a plot

2/10 the ending was shit and the story got boring after 20 pages

>>16600104
Are you a Nazi or something?

>>16602328
We're all nazis here

>>16601834
Same reason you should read DFW in english.

>>16602375
>should read DFW
lol

>>16600087
I would agree with Nabokov that it is one of the greatest novels of 20th century prose. And yes I did read it in German.

>>16600087

>>16600087
why is Kafka so damm good??

>>16600087
Hit a little too close to home for me.