> In a 1915 letter to his publisher, he [Kafka] stipulated,

yeah he also said to burn all his shit after he died, don't fucking listen to him dude

i expected better of norton tbqh

>>8936421
i thought depending on your original interpretation of the german, it wasn't even necessarily an insect? like maybe it was just a generic "unclean" animal?

>>8936432
In the original it's Ungeziefer and although the definition might be something else (something akin to vermin), it's pretty much synonumous with insects.

>roastie-pseudo talking about metamorphosis
>"it was soo interesting how he turned into a beetle!"
and that was the end of their analysis

>>8936436
How does it even fit under the couch?

>>8936445
*pseuds not pseudo

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>>8936421

That's normies for ya.

>>8936452
??? It doesn't. That's why he busting out

>>8936452
starved himself

>>8936443
It can also refer to "social leeches". It's a figurative play on his feelings of worthlessness.

>"You overstimate me. Your trust crushes me. My scrawlings don't deserve a leather cover, they should't be printed in the first place. They should be burned, annihilated, they have no significance"

>"Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread."

Where did the low self esteem come from /lit/?

>>8936527
his dad never hugged him

>>8936436
lmao he be buggin out OH LAWD

>>8936527
It's "low self esteem" not real low self esteem. If he really wanted his shit burned he would have done it.

>>8936704
>reverse psychology meme
>"he didn't mean it!"
Kafka is not a female, anon.

>>8936455
This pic is so fucked up.

>>8936725
It's almost...Kafkaesque.

>>8936709
I stand by my point. Most writers are egomaniacs.