Thread 24800921

Name a more overtly forced hack.

>>24800921 (OP)
He's great. Explain why you dislike him.

>>24800921 (OP)
Machiavelli

>>24800921 (OP)
he looks slightly turkish

>>24800921 (OP)
I have never taken a lit course and have no friends who read or talk about books and I like a lot of his stories. the burrow and death by drowning are wonderful. so for me its not forced at least

I have found myself in a bizarre bureaucratic nightmare involving serious accusations and names that the accusers claim I ought to know and now I feel like reading the Trial again
I enjoyed Kafka a lot

i really liked "the country doctor" and "a report to an academy" methinks he's in his element when he's writing short stories that are <15 pages. barely any panic attacks and i don't get to feel 2nd hand anxiety

>>24801062
oh i forgot ops question. i like his style honestly but murakami, ishiguru mogs and mishima gigamogs. murakami might as well be a postwar burger "im a sad man who cant talk about stuff" but with more absurdism

>>24800921 (OP)
>I hate modernity desu.
>Please notice.
>Sits on obese ass and complains on social media.

>>24800921 (OP)
I cannot imagine not being engrossed, fascinated and excited by reading him, assuming you have an affinity for literature. Theres a shit ton of people who read his letter to his father and metamorphosis and think of themselves of being really into Kafka, if that is what youre complaining about.

>>24800921 (OP)
He's a great writer, but his view of the world is literally the exact inverse of mine. I hate his stories, but still enjoy reading them on some level when read rarely.

>>24800921 (OP)
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Get on his level anons.

>>24802035
>"I have spent all my life knowing I shouldn't be alive, but never lived enough to allow myself die"
That good enough?

>>24800921 (OP)
>ay Tone

He would have been one of those second to third rate forgotten dudes the Pushkin Press or NYRB digs out of the soil like dinosaurs had he been born a gentile.

>>24801060
I'm turkish and he looks eerily like my father

>>24800921 (OP)
He wanted to join the war. What do you mean? He was literally forced to be a hack. You're right. But not by his own will. He was deemed irreplaceable to the economy to send to war by his employers.

>>24801038
This board only exists for people to be contrarian on—don't pursue this. Just leave. It's better for everyone.

>>24800921 (OP)
I find his books, specifically their prose and overall rythm, to have aged badly unfortunately. I understand the revolution Kafka's prose was for german literature and the influence his oeuvre had on modern literature, but I can't help but find his books slow and borderline boring.
I do however like his personal writings as well as his overall thesis on the alienation of the self in our modern bureaucratic world.

>>24801038
Yeah, I don't get Kafka is great and nothing he makes is overly long. wtf is OP's problem?

It's just that there are so few good writers in the 20th century that Kafka still stands a head above the great majority

>>24800921 (OP)
I stopped liking Kafka after I learned he was a jew

>>24802368
Your like a brown woke-fag but instead of seething for white people its jews.

>>24800921 (OP)
Metamorphosis was aight