>>25256508This book was like a chore and joke wrapped into one. I read before that Kafka would wake his neighbors by laughing hysterically in the middle of the night while righting The Metamorphosis. To him, The Metamorphosis wasn't horrifying, it was hilarious because of how absurd it was. To me, The Castle was like one of Kafka's little games. Completely absurd, absolutely no point, and no pay off. No satisfaction, no suspense, nothing at all. It's like "How much of this will they read before they give up?"
>>25256510When I first read The Metamorphosis together with my high school class I was laughing my ass off and they were looking at me like I was crazy
And here I thought people on /lit/ actually read books
>>25256510>No satisfactionIt did has suspense though.It was a terrible anxiety dream and could have gone on another 400 or 500 pages, but like those kinds of dreams it just breaks off, just before you have a slight chance to score with those women, you have to speak with some old woman you will be staying with in a shake in the backyard... Then nothing. Like you wake up.The modern world is a nightmare and there's no time for the artists to write anything else but these sardonic horrors
>>25256528Was this around the time Joker came out?
>>25259024>satisfactionThe hell? I thought I highlighted "suspense"
>>25256508You thought that most of the characters were capricious, including K., while the humble and forthright characters (Barnabas, Amalia, etc.) were secretly envied and cruelly treated. As >>25259024 correctly points out, you thought the novel was a sardonic horror, and what was most terrible about it was the general complacency of the characters being subject to a farcical bureaucracy and lawless whims.
>>25259030NTA but I feel like anyone who doesn't see the humor in Kafka's works is missing out on a lot of what makes them great
