/lit/ - Literature

Goethe if you count Werther instead of Faust.

>>6809525
That would make an excellent debate.

>>6809497
Anna Karenina it´s more famous than War and Peace.

>>6809497
Which of his works do you mean? If it's >le bug man you're wrong

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romeo and Juliet is good but it's mediocre compared to his other plays

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>>6809731

Other than being eerily prescient Restrepo was plain dog shit.

>>6809635
>implying le man bug is better than The Trial, or even some of his shorter works

>>6809648
Henry V is worst Shake

>>6809611
According to whom?

>>6809648
Hamlet is more famous than R&J if you count across all age groups.

>>6809611
AK is less famous and also better. Maybe try again?

>>6809756
Based on personal experience, but I guess it´s fine. Don´t get me wrong though I loved AK, But personally I prefer The Death Of Ivan Illich and War and Peace.

>>6809611
Even Anna Karenina is more famous (I don't think it is), it's superior to War and Peace and certainly not his worst work. In fact, it's probably his best. That or The Death of Ivan Ilych.

White Noise

>>6810075
this

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>>6810090
white noise is so good though. i can't imagine the rest of his stuff being better. been waiting to read underworld. trying to finish pynchon i have though

>>6810094
white noise is basically YA

the names is his best

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Really /lit/ ? I mean, seriously ?

this thread is a great pleb-catcher. well done op.

>>6809731
I agree typee was shit

>>6810032
His worst is the cossacks actually

His novels and essays are pretty poor, his short stories are great.

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>>6809497
metamorphosis is his greatest work, comparing it to the novels is unfair

anyway, the judgement is definitly worse

>>6809752
dauphin pls go

>>6809648

It was more innovative in terms of narrative structure than a play like Macbeth, for instance, though. Its hybridization of tragedy and comedy. I personally find the characters annoying and it's not even close to my favourite Shakespeare. But I think it's one of his most innovative plays.

>>6809635
I completely agree with OP. The Metamorphosis is a good introduction to Kafka, but it's definitely one of the least interesting stories in his catalog. So many other of his short stories get into much weirder territory, which is what excites me about reading Kafka. Like Country Doctor, Hunger Artist, whatever, but The Castle and The Trial AND Amerika are all leaps and bounds better than Meta

I agree OP, although I would place it in the middle rather than at the bottom, a place I reserve for 11 sons (which is still good) and The Castle (which I simply slogged through).

My favourites are the hunger artist, the trial, in the penal colony and jackals and arabs.

>>6811151
>The Castle (which I simply slogged through)

Opinion discarded

>>6810476
He's most celebrated for being an essayist but, because of the number of his essays, none are more famous than Candide, Zadig or L'Ingenu.

>>6811152

I can see the purpose of the disconnected, episodic structure, and I think there's merit to it. But it was too unfinished for me. I think many of the episodes could have been cut to make reading it not such a tedious experience.

There is a jouissance in reading Kafka's short fiction that was totally missing in the Castle for me. This is one opinion which is more personal than most of my others. That is, I wouldn't care enough to construct a really strong argument.

>>6811152
seconded, The Castle is his most exciting book
any love for Hunter Gracchus?

>>6810100

> white noise is YA

Definitely this

Almost stopped me from reading his actually good stuff like libra

>>6809497
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>>6809745
>all of this Kafka

I picked a good day to start reading The Castle. I can't stand most of his short stories, for various reasons, but his novels are fucking incredible.

Milan Kundera

I don't know what everyone sees in The Unbearable Lightness of Being apart from the cool title. It's maybe not his worse, but it seems pretty so-so compared to his other stuff.

>>6809745
Nobody said that, you fucking retard.

Harper Lee

>>6811162
I guess you could say The Castle is his less fun book but it's also his most ambitious. And the disconnected episodic structure is more apparent in The Trial, I believe.

>>6811163
The Castle was great, that last chapter is really crazy. Even though it's unfinished and literally ends mid sentence I think the ending was perfect, and would be even more so if you cut the last paragraph. K. being dragged by Gerstacker, something very bleak about it.

>>6809497
Clockwork Orange according to Burgess.

>>6811151
>jackals and arabs.

lmao why?

>>6809497
Richard Yates. Cold Spring Harbor, The Easter Parade, A Good School, Disturbing the Peace and his short stories are all superior to the endlessly irritating Revolutionary Road.