Thoughts?
everyone looks like a midwit when you boil them down to quotes
>>25231724Viewing social interactions as a costume party, or more often and specifically a masquerade, is a fairly standard take. He definitely should have realized that take by like age 14. It's unfortunate that he is ashamed of who he is, though I suppose some people should definitely not act themselves shamelessly.That said it's likely he simply should have given less of a fuck.
>>25231729Except Faulkner in the other thread. Hell, it makes him looks smarter than he probably was.
>>25231724Translation "I was ashamed when I realized life is full of static statues and I was just another one of them".
>>25231805>same thing but worded in a more childish wayRight.
>>25231769He wasn't ashamed of who he is, he was ashamed he was too autistic to realize the person you present is a cultivated image for social purposes like dressing well for work.
There is something about Kafka's face that i always found to be oddly endearing. I can see why he was such an manwhore in his lifetime.
>>25232333>he was ashamed he was too autistic to realize the person you present is a cultivated image for social purposes like dressing well for workYeah. I know. And he should have given less of a fuck. If who he was wasn't good enough for social purposes, that's society's problem, not his.Society isn't who you need to cultivate an image for. Just people who have power over you. And you should limit the number of those in your life as much as possible.People give too much of a fuck about how they come across to other people.
>>25232342He wasn't though. He just had sex with prostitutes and had "online" relationships until the very end of his life
>>25232348But that's the whole point of the emotion of shame. That is all shame is. All you are saying is that he should have been without shame, that he should have had chutzpah. But it Kafka was a man of chutzpah, he could not have had his finger on the pulse of labor alienation and thus produced his literature
>>25231724and prayers
>>25231724>be born and live in one of the most tolerant countries in Europe at the time>your ilk literally dominate the artistic, intellectual and cultural life of the capital>still whine about muh father and muh alienation from gentile societyGive me a break. Little Kafka should have been sent to farm in a shtetl on the Pale to learn how privileged he was.Literal first world problems.
>>25232407>a man being disowned by his own family for being unproductive is about jews in gentile society
>>25231729Can I quote you on that?
>>25231724>Thoughts? >Writing about the language that is german; schopenhauer and goethe can be occasionally very important sometimes
