I was just taking a shit and this book popped in to my head again. I read it in 2012 and I'm still aggravated every time it resurfaces in my memory. This was by far the most infuriating read I've ever powered through with sheep willpower, I just hate-read it after a short while. Never have I've read of a man so meek, so willingly helpless, so cücked, a famous author just setting me up on a cück-chair and taking me on a ride like some fuck-mook. I get it - it's fiction, but it's like a movie with a shitty, really unbelievable plot, with people making the most absurd decisions. I could not relate to any part of this story at all, I could not relate to the protagonist the slightest, his submissiveness still makes my heart rate elevated when I think back on it, the suspension of disbelief was impossible. And I love fiction, even shitty fiction. I don't know, maybe I had to vent, maybe some of you can relate, maybe some of you have other books that made you feel this, but I got it off my chest. Anyone felt similar? Anyone liked it?
>>25190140Yeah. It's my favorite book.
>>25190591bro what the fuck
>>25190140I felt similarly about Stoner.
>>25190659>StonerNow that's an exercise in bleakness and masochism.
>>25190672True, but I could not help but respect the ability of the book to force me to read the entirety of it.To some extent, I also value the fact that it made me feel and reflect on my own life.
>>25190140Do you hate Kafka?
>Never have I've read of a man so meek, so willingly helpless, so cückedDon't own a mirror, huh?
>>25192108>barges into a thread>feels personally attacked>starts projectingmany such cases
>>25190140Read it just a couple of months ago. I didn't really care for it; it was trite. But the meekness of the guy was pretty annoying to get through. On the whole it reminded me of "Waiting for Godot", which is a book that made me angry as fuck when I read it.
>>25190720Not OP, but I really do. And I think what people mistake about Kafka's work is that he actually was severely autistic and writing from personal experience.
>>25192162I half watched the movie of this on Tcm once and it didn’t look that interesting. Looked like something from that era of the 60s which tries hard at being visually experimental but lacked depth. That’s just based off a brief clip I watched
>>25190140this book is misogynistic
>>25192457No, it is not. Not in the slightest.
>>25192539this book promotes rape and concludes with the birth of a rape baby
>>25192634You have very perverted understanding of things.
>>25192634You're a dumbass. The book is misogynistic because it insinuates that a woman is what traps a man in a dull and meaningless life, not because the main character rapes someone.
>>25192649the woman does not trap him it's the villagers
>>25192649It's not the woman who traps the man, she is more like a tool of the the people who trap him. Like when bear steps into hunter's trap, it's not the trap that trapped him, but the hunter who set it up.
>>25190140You were filtered hard because you're a plotfag who can't read into character.
>>25193047kek the character(s) is the most annoying part of this book
>>25192649>>25192661You're both wrong. The encroaching sand represents the decay of time and the woman accepts this reality. The man tries to ignore it by doing things like trying to capture a literal mirage (self-sufficiency by trapping his own water) but, by the end of the novel, realizes the only thing of value/meaning he has is the woman and his relationship with her. This is why, when she is taken away to the hospital to likely die, he crawls back into a metaphorical grave.
>>25193055>complete filteredDon't post again until you've read pic-related.
>>25193060>thatLMAO! nobody tell him!
>>25193072You've given up discussing the book because it's obvious you're incapable of understanding it beyond plot and your subjective interpretation, that you don't even realize is subjective, of superficial character dynamics. You're missing the forest for the trees and literature isn't for you.
>>25193083>I am very smart. The post.
>>25193112No, anon. It's just that you are very dumb.
>>25193060Don’t stop till having read zeami
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