Just wondering lit. Did Kafka finish this book or was the strange

>>8523433
kafka jacked it to sonic porn he was plenty capable of strangeness himself

>>8523433
neither.

>>8523447
sonic the hedgehog?

>>8523447
Ya sure. It's just that the tone is completely different and I heard that it was unfinished.

>>8523455
>At the focus of Hawes' investigation are pictures he stumbled across in the British Library in London and the Bodleian in Oxford of the pornography to which Kafka subscribed while in his twenties. They include images of a hedgehog-style creature performing fellatio, golem-like male creatures grasping women's breasts with their claw-like hands and a picture of a baby emerging from a sliced-open leg.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/15/franzkafka.germany

>>8523473
lmaoooooo what the fuck. people have always been pretty degenerate.

>>8523473
Well then. Its actually in that article.

>>8523433
It's unfinished. Nothing has been added by someone else.

>>8523477
Yeah he basically subscribed to /b/ in print. He would have been a tremendous shitposter.

>>8523477
and you didn't know? What are you, 17?

>>8523537

i knew, but you forget eventually that famous or notorious people are just the same garbage as the rest of us.

>>8523433
It's all written by Kafka himself but I think it's actually a lot more unfinished than they make out.

The first time I read it, that version put some parts in the afterword section after the end. The second version I read had placed two parts into the middle somewhere. There are named characters in some of the fragments which don't appear in the published narrative.

Given that the ending is extremely confusing I think there's at least two large things that were meant to take place in the book which weren't put onto paper. I read that one of Kafka's acquaintances handled the composition for publishing.

>>8523574
Ya the ending is just so underwhelming to me. It feels way too abrupt. Like the plot could of been developed a lot more.

>>8523574
Max Brod was the man you're referring to. Most editions you can find now were not the ones originally published in Germany, his full manuscripts have been reclaimed and were quickly translated and published without Brod's emendations

>>8523433
Is that cover seele?

>>8523433
He didn't finish it. The ending was a rough draft.
He first said that the novel was not finishable, when he gets into a deeper layer of the law there would just another layer. He would have to do this forever.
It seems Kafka changed his mind on ending the story though if you look at the chapter with the church and the story where he is before the law.

>>8523433
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>>8523574
>>8524520
You don't know the order in which he wrote the Trial?

Like, really?

He first wrote the first and last chapters, then the middle, with the ambition to have the core like 20% longer than what ended up being published (1 more chapter iirc, plus a finish to the unfinished one)

That's the whole ''unfinished'' we're talking about

Why doesnt the main character ever ask what he is accused of?

>>8525404
Because it doesn't matter. We're all guilty, all die

LIKE A DOG.

>>8525404
because he realizes its ultimately a completely unimportant point

>>8523473
I love Kafka but, you can take the brackets off of the last name, you can't take the brackets out of the man

>>8525404

Because logic is not required in literature.

>>8525994
What did you mean by this?

>>8523499
>/b/
more like /d/

>>8524553
I think one of the keys to Evangelion (which samples so liberally from so much existentialist and early 20th century German thought) is the complete absence of any references to Kafka.

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>>8525994
>(((Kafka)))

>>8523473
They are just satirical drawings, i saw them int he kafka-museum in prague. They are like doodles you drew in school

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>>8526003
Interesting that there are 3 completely different answers to this.

I can't lie, I was annoyed by this too when I read it. It being a completely unimportant point? Maybe to the novel but to the character?

I get that's what adds to the Kafkaesque idea but it annoyed me. I probably just don't like Kafka very much...

>>8526063
What were they satirising?

>>8526069
except the first two are almost the same and the third one is dumb

>>8526063
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/08/16/kafkas-porn-unveiled/
doesn't look liek doodles

>>8525388
>quoting all the posts in a thread
>acting all haughty like "Oh, you don't know this thing which is not actually explained in any printed version of the book? HAH!"
Kill yourself, nerd.