The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka in case anyone was wondering.
thank you, it seemed eerily familiar
Your jobs a joke, you’re broke, and now you are a bug!
He is Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka!
TIL there is a cover song and director’s cut of this sweet Rock Opera.
It’s SO sad what happened to him. Imagine having a colostomy because you couldn’t stop doing drugs. Or drowning.
clap-clap-clap-clap
You’re job’s a joke, you’re broke
Democracy’s DOA
“He is Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka.”
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Stuck in your bunk, you’re sunk Can’t turn up the right waaaay
I just finished rereading this. The ending is so depressing.
I feel like I should read at least one book by Kafka. Any recommendations?
Apparently The Trial is his masterpiece.
none if you like happiness
Sometimes staring into the abyss lets me surpass my panic and find a certain peace that motivates me.
For example after reading “Before The Law” I thought to myself “I wonder what the man’s life would’ve been like if he chose not to seek entrance into the law, but instead lived by his own principles. It could’ve been a whole different story.”
That one on the image. Metamorphosis is a fun short book that you show you what Kafka is about.
On the other hand, The Trial is a long, heavy book that will make you feel like you have gone crazy. Personally, I can’t stand this one. (Though, it’s because it’s very good on what it intends to do.)
Metamorphosis is the go-to Kafka book. I personally find The Trial the most “kafkian” of his novels, and I love it, but Amerika has a special place in my heart as what defines his literature is trying to find a way out, like a little seedling.
The most boring story ever. A guy wakes up, notices he is a beetle for whatever reason, and is afraid his family might notice. That’s it. Why anyone would waste paper on printing this shit is incomprehendable.
The guy who’s partly responsible for feeding his family can’t do that very thing anymore and notices that he basically lost all value to them (they start treating him like shit until he dies). If you want you can say its a book about failing to fulfill gender expectations and about why a patriarchy also is bad for men. About people loving him for what he’s doing, not for who he is, and that love eroding as soon as he can’t do that anymore.
Of course you can hallucinate about everything into that story, but that still does not change the fact that it is boring like hell.
Agree. It was a chore listening to it. Good it’s short.
Edit* it’s one of the pieces of literature that can’t be reviewed anymore. Like 1984.
1984 is good with the whole world building thing. The moment our protagonist falls in love and fuck the chick in that field its over.
It reads way better in German, and by that I mean that the boringness of it feels more like a bleak anti-joke observational humour comedy bit.
I’ve read it in German, and it was that bad.
