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Why was he so perfect?

>> No.4272268
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He was pretty intelligent. And he made himself vulnerable.

>> No.4272271

>>4272268

He looks like a fag and his shit's retarded.

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>>4272268
>you will never comfort him after he has a bad day at work

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>>4272268

>> No.4272313

>>4272256
perfect how?

>> No.4272315

How could he be one of the greatest authors of all time without even finishing his most significant works?

>> No.4272324

>>4272271

A sexy fag. perfect twink

>> No.4272326

>>4272268
Hey, I have the exact same beta body language around people too. Maybe I'll be a world-class author one day.

>> No.4272330

>>4272256

I'd have to agree. He was pretty "Kafkaesque."

>> No.4272332

>>4272326
I heard insanity helps as well.

>> No.4272368

>>4272315
Because every fuckin' work is never complete.

Do you know that other significant works remained unfinished (e.g. The Man without qualities, In search of lost time, etc.)?

>> No.4273723

>>4272368
What are you talking about? Every novel I have ever read has been complete except for Kafka

>> No.4273768

Franz Kafka
Begley is particularly astute on the bizarre organization of Kafka's writing day. At the Assicurazioni Generali, Kafka despaired of his twelve-hour shifts that left no time for writing; two years later, promoted to the position of chief clerk at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, he was now on the one-shift system, 8:30 AM until 2:30 PM. And then what? Lunch until 3:30, then sleep until 7:30, then exercises, then a family dinner. After which he started work around 11 PM (as Begley points out, the letter- and diary-writing took up at least an hour a day, and more usually two), and then "depending on my strength, inclination, and luck, until one, two, or three o'clock, once even till six in the morning." Then "every imaginable effort to go to sleep," as he fitfully rested before leaving to go to the office once more. This routine left him permanently on the verge of collapse. Yet

when Felice wrote to him...arguing that a more rational organization of his day might be possible, he bristled.... "The present way is the only possible one; if I can't bear it, so much the worse; but I will bear it somehow."

It was [Max] Brod's opinion that Kafka's parents should gift him a lump sum "so that he could leave the office, go off to some cheap little place on the Riviera to create those works that God, using Franz's brain, wishes the world to have." Begley, leaving God out of it, politely disagrees, finding Brod's wish

probably misguided. Kafka's failure to make even an attempt to break out of the twin prisons of the Institute and his room at the family apartment may have been nothing less than the choice of the way of life that paradoxically best suited him.


It is rare that writers of fiction sit behind their desks, actually writing, for more than a few hours a day. Had Kafka been able to use his time efficiently, the work schedule at the Institute would have left him with enough free time for writing. As he recognized, the truth was that he wasted time.

The truth was that he wasted time! The writer's equivalent of the dater's revelation: He's just not that into you. "Having the Institute and the conditions at his parents' apartment to blame for the long fallow periods when he couldn't write gave Kafka cover: it enabled him to preserve some of his self-esteem."

>> No.4273770

Opacity is depth! Opacity is depth! Opacity is depth!

No one will remember Kafka in a century. Kafka is where undergraduates go when they finish Camus and want to continue feeling smart but don't want to actually do any work.

>> No.4273790

>>4273770
wut
Kafka is one of the finest 20th century writers, and he will be remembered all right.

>> No.4273799

>>4272315
That could be the case if you die very young.
Look at e.g. Musil instead, there your claim is right.

>> No.4273869

>>4273770

>No one will remember Kafka in a century.

Hah. Cute.

>> No.4273887

The real question is, what the fuck was up with his hairline?

Have you seen a hairline so low? Where's his forehead?

Very Kafkaesque indeed.

>> No.4274867

>>4273723
I'm talking about Blanchots theory of writing, books and "l'œuvre" in general.

>> No.4274946

>>4273770
idiot