I marathoned this book. Anyone else found Gregor kinda cute at times?Stuff like:>“Setting Gregor’s room to rights, a task she now saved for the evenings, could not possibly have been done any more perfunctorily. Great streaks of dirt extended across the walls, with balls of dust and rubbish lying scattered about. At first when Gregor’s sister came into his room he would position himself in corners particularly indicative of this problem—to reproach her, as it were, by his presence there. But he could just as well have spent entire weeks sitting there without any improvement on his sister’s part;”or when he had to make big manoevres to turn around, taking little pauses as everybody is staring and waiting.translation: Susan BernofskyI had always thought this would be like a horror story, but it's funnier that I expected. I was primed a bit by reading about how Kafka and his friend would laugh reading his stories. I will read the trial next. Anyways what did (You) think of it?
>>25334983I like Kafka's writing style, but I think it'd be really boring and dry prose if it wasn't used to both highlight the, well, Kafkaesque nature of his works, but also contrast the freaky circumstances.
>family stops loving him the second he cannot provide a transactional pragmatic service He is literally me fr fr
>>25334999often when people call prose dry, i feel they're just not attuned to all the subtler things going on in it
>>25334999I think translators clean his prose up a lot. He‘s a dreadful chore in German.
>>25335048I don't have the book on me cuz I lent it to my mother but from what I recall, he uses language in a very direct and matter-of-fact way without any kind of contractions, metaphors or similes. He just describes things plainly and directly. I like this because it actually suits the insane shit going on, so that almost professional sounding language contrasts it nicely and also matches the bureaucratic vibe. If you wanna point out anything interesting about the prose though then I'd love to hear it.>>25335072How so? any way you could explain that to a non-German speaker?
>>25335077>>25334999Nice trips and dubs
bump cmon negus
>>25335718let that bitch die with that horrible thread
>>25335723I already killed her when I pointed out the bulge wulgy. She dested her discord and privated the vid.Feel free to discuss Kafka in this thread
>60 pages>marathon
>>25335757seethe it was over 200 pages
>>25335764that's because you're reading pages the size of a phone screen bro. It's quite absurd to say that you 'marathoned' such a short book
>>25336073calling it a book is generous. its a "longer" short story. my copy of complete short stories and parables has it at 50
>>25335723bruh she's literally reading the edition I read, you think she saw the thread?
