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Hello,

I've recently finished Kafka's Trial. I took this book because the other books that I was looking for were not available in my local library. I was quite sceptical but didn't want to return home with empty hands, so whatever let's take Kafka. I have no words now to thank the blind luck that told me to take this book. It is a masterpiece, I haven't ever read anything like that before and I want more.

/litl/, can you recommend similar books? I appreciate surreal, dense, dark, climate. Loneliness and graduall fall of the main character is a plus. Existentialism warmly welcomed.

>> No.5606440

Stoner
Crime and Punishment

>> No.5606441

Try Kobo Abe, especially The Boxman

>> No.5606487

More Kafka

>> No.5606501

>>5606425
The Castle.

It's the Trial on steroids.

>> No.5606555

>>5606487

I already started "The Castle" but it's very different, full of long and boring narrations, not as intense as "The Trial". Moreover I don't get it yet. I don't feel the character either. I plan to try "America" and "Metamorphosis" later also.

>>5606440
>>5606441

Thanks

>>5606501
Well I finished 4 chapters already and my impression is like described above. Let's hope it will change.

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>>5606425
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

>> No.5606696

>>5606555
Have you read in the Penal Colony? I remember going in blind when reading the Trial without really knowing about Kafka much. I didn't know how to feel about it until I read in the Penal Colony shortly after and it really clicked. Great depiction of the sort of situations Kafka was all about. Plus it's short and sweet.

>> No.5606706

>>5606562
Keep seeing this pop up around. I really should check it out finally.

>> No.5606712

the unconsoled

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>>5606706
It's a quick read. If you can, find a copy with Schulz's illustrations.

>> No.5607221

>>5606696
I had a dream/nightmare once about a machine like the one from In the Penal Colony before I had read it. I told a friend about it and he got me to read it. It's honestly still pretty unsettling to me.

>>5606441
Thanks for mentioning Kobo Abe, I've never heard of him. I'm halfway through The Woman in the Dunes, definitely seems like I would enjoy the rest of his work.

>> No.5607253

>>5606706

Schulz has a very small oeuvre, but still I feel it necessary to point out that his other book, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is superior in many ways to the Street of the Crocodiles. At the very least, it is equally important and reaches heights of imagination and sublime verbosity that are just slightly above Street of Crocodiles. I'd read it first, and then watch the film adaptation by Wojciech Has which is simultaneously does justice to the text and stands out as a beautiful achievement in its own medium.

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>>5607253

>tfw his masterpiece 'The Messiah' that he spent over seven years writing and which he considered his magnum opus will remain forever lost and unread