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What makes Kafka a great writer? His stories are good, but his writing is often dry and laborious, but I want to like him more than I do. Of his work, I’ve read the Metamorphosis, The Burrow, and Description of a Struggle, and, save for the Metamorphosis, found myself waiting for the stories to get better up to the end.

>> No.11234138

>>11234113
Teutons cannot write fiction.

>> No.11234157

>>11234138
Yes. They steal everything from their neighbors and do it more badly and autistically. I have often felt that teutons should stop writing fiction or politicking and start behaving like the Chinese do.

>> No.11234187

>>11234113
Even Kafka was a Chad.

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>>11234157
>teutons

>is a czech jew

yes

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>>11234187

Google tells me his height was 1,82. (or 5'11).

He had a good jawline and cheeckbons, a thick and healthy hair and a nice skin color. If he worked out he would certainly be a Chad (even more if he had surgery to correct his prominent ears).

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Just finish Das Schloss and I was rather perplexed at the end... is this how you feel after all of his books?

>> No.11234264

>>11234194
How would Kafka learn to write in German if he wasn't trained to write as a German, in the teutonic tradition of thieving and pedantry?

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>>11234138
>>11234157
>yfw frogs are STILL buttmad about Wolfram von Eschenbach taking Chrétien de Troyes' story and outdoing him in every way

>> No.11234294

>>11234241
Not necessarily perplexed... more underwhelmed, and a little confused due to that feeling. Confusion and things lacking sense to be one of his themes, but sometimes I get the sense that these things were too confusedly thought out in his mind... if that makes sense. His stories have interesting images here and there but they don’t give me much beyond that

>> No.11234346

>>11234277
god I wish that were me

>> No.11234358

>>11234113
The Burrow and Description of a struggle are up there with his weirdest stories. Read his novels.

>> No.11234365

>>11234277
lol she does too much coke, jesus christ she needs to stop smoking and snorting man, not going to be fun when she’s 50 and can’t feel emotions

>> No.11234485

>>11234365
Fuck a bitch i forgot her name

>> No.11234491

>>11234485
Barbara Palvin

>> No.11234638

>>11234222
he was a chad

>> No.11234727

>>11234638
His work always felt like Incelcore to me but the dude got serious fucking tail. Woody Allen of his day.

>> No.11234742

>>11234727
Serious tall?

BTFO if you’re not over 6’

>> No.11235052

>>11234727
he was a chad incel.

>> No.11235462

You all need to read more
I'm not sure why people on this board expect to be able to read and appreciate newer literature without going through the history of literature. It's like picking up a calculus book without learning algebra.
Read the fucking classics you morons. Learn to read and understand the elements of a novel. I would reccomend reading The Greeks and The Bible.