What are your thoughts on Franz Kafka's work?
I personally find his literature stranger and creepier than, let's say Guillaume Apollinaire's works, which is why i'll also make a thread about him on /x/
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
I'm reading his complete works.
So far the only thing remotely interesting was metamorphosis, the trial was ok but the castle was absolutely boring.
>>8583795
gotten to Amerika there friend?
>>8584885
I'm reading the penal colony now.
>>8583194
I always wondered whether he liked his protagonists or not. There is a pessimism in his work, where the protagonist is a victim of some kind and then seems passive or unable to affect their own future, either through their own pride or simple ignorance. Did he like Gregor Samsa, with Samsa's pride and naivety?
Apparently in his original manuscripts, some sentences are crossed out and made to be in the passive voice. The start of the trial, for instance, “someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he WAS arrested.”
>>8585614
good shit friend, just try to enjoy the ride