What would you say his masterpiece was?

>>9653742
he didn't have one

>>9653742
Don't you actually have to finish a book to have a masterpiece?

>>9653750
this, really. I would call the castle a blueprint of a masterpiece and that's as close as he got.

>>9653742
The Trial, definitely

>>9653750
A short story can be a masterpiece too

>>9653768
actually you reminded me of some very short story of his about children playing make-believe that blew me away. can't remember the name.

>>9653742
Long work: The Trial
Short work: A Country Doctor
Also: The Diaries

>>9653750
Obsoletely not

>>9653767
This

>>9653772
Children On a Country Road?

A little fable

>>9653879
t.DFW

But yeah that one's great

>>9653742
The one by Murakami.

His short stories are great. Not necessarily as literature (though, they are that too) but as descriptions of facets of the human conditions.

Country Doctor, Hunger Artist and The Verdict are my favorites.

The Castle obviously

The Hunger Artist

>>9653902
Say what you will about le water man, but A Little Fable summarizes life and Jewish neuroticism in two paragraphs.

>>9654360
Young adult novel, but nothing happens

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>>9653767
Redpill me on Trial. Besides that it's a good book.

What makes it tick?

>>9654527
More like young adult novel and a lot of incoherent shit happens in the latter half

>>9653742
I'd say Moltisanti in The Sopranos was his best role.

>>9653742
The Silence of the Sirens or Another Take on Don Quijote

I think Kafka is at his best at his shortest, most aphoristic works

>>9653742
Tell me something about old Angsty Boi here, /lit/. How did he manage to turn his own daddy issues and other various neuroses into something the world could appreciate? What's the secret?

>>9654537
xDDDD

>>9654820
1. He was a genius
2. He was very industrious

>>9654830
There was no need for that.

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>>9654717

The Metamorphosis and The Castle

The judgement

>>9653792
I don't understand what was so good about Country Doctor. Am i just pleb or did I breeze through it too fast. Tell me why you like it so much anon

>>9654424
This

>>9654794
>I think Kafka is at his best at his shortest, most aphoristic works

Surprised you didn't say Poseidon, then.

In the Penal Colony

>>9654424
My starved nigga, this right here

For me it goes The Burrow and The Castle

>>9653742
>good writer
>fell for the Marxist bandwagon

Thank god the 20th century is over.

>>9657089
Not that anon but you probably breezed trought it too fast. I came to appreciate it only after I saw this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjmW-gIsKs) and reread it.