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He's literally me

>> No.20864223

>>20864116
I honestly found this overrated

>> No.20864274
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20864274

Any book to feel part insect?

>> No.20864277

>>20864274
All untranslated Chinese literature.

>> No.20864492

>>20864223
So did I. Going to read The Trial soon, hopefully I prefer it.

>> No.20864819

>>20864223
>>20864492
your dumb

>> No.20865004
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>>20864492
>>20864223
What was overrated about it? It’s not high literature, a dude wakes up one day and is a bug.
What did you expect a happy ending?
Someone got handed a shitty lot in like and everyone was happier when he died, that’s life, nothing more nothing less.

>> No.20865023

>>20864819
>>20865004
It was boring, dry to the point of being stale.

>> No.20865035

>>20864223
Socialist jew

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>>20865035
I'm an ANCAP Australian you stupid faggot, I just didn't like the fucking book

>> No.20865186

>>20865023
The concept of a man waking up as a giant bug was boring to you? It’s not some grand epic, that’s enough to carry 75 pages.

>> No.20865211

>>20865119
Kafka was a socialist Jew you retarded monkey, what do you get from hopping on this Sudanese typesetting forum and talking about topics you know nothing about?

>> No.20865395

>>20864223
yes

>> No.20865421

>>20865004
Oh ya, Smartypants, then what did the
apple stuck up his ass symbolize.

>> No.20865425

>>20864116
such is life for a turk

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>>20865211
If you weren't such a retard you would've added more context to your comment, for example, "Kafka was a socialist jew".

But no, you chose to be a fucking retard and think everyone knows every kike commie in literature.

>> No.20865467

>>20865004
Not that anon and it's not a bad story at all but Kafka just has better ones like the country doctor, the penal colony, report to an academy, the burrow etc

>> No.20865505

>>20864116
The story's a lot more funny when you learn kafka was known to laugh uncontrollably while reading/writing his stuff. The scene where he's cheering himself on trying to open the door with his new bug hands to go to work absolutely kills me.

>> No.20865537

>>20865505
He also asked for all his writing to be burned after he died but his wishes were not honored

>> No.20865554

Him turning into a cockroach is a metaphor for niggers who stay all day in basement.

>> No.20865572

>>20864277
Kek

>> No.20865583

>>20865554
I think it's about depression or disability, as his family immediately start treating him like shit once he's not making money anymore, and eventually kill him

>> No.20865980

>>20865445
You don’t know shit about Kafka and want to call me a retard, come on

>> No.20866062

>>20864116
quit buggin

>> No.20866179

>>20865505
I think he laughed because he was an actual masochist. The Venus in Furs reference seals that deal. Jewish humour is all about being a loser. Look at any Judd Apatow movie. I saw an H. Jon Benjamin interview where he tells this extremely embarrassing real life story of his from college where he got brutally sexually humiliated and told it like it's hilarious. It was sick in the head. A celebration of weakness and degeneracy.

>> No.20866687

>>20866179
>I think he laughed because he was an actual masochist
100% this is a jewish trait.
I bit off topic, but i notice a lot of European literature to heavily depict self depression and misery, if done wrong like Jewish masochist, it comes across just as pathetic.

>> No.20866847

>>20864116
I'm literally the father.

>> No.20866932

Hahahahahahahaha big ol bug on buddy
looks hilarious
this better be a comedy

>> No.20866949

>>20866179
>H. Jon Benjamin story
holy shit its true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5hZm021Bo

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>>20865554
>cockroach
A cockroach is an insect that is flat in shape with large legs, and Gregor is anything but flat: he is convex on both sides, belly and back, and his legs are small. He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.) Further, he has strong mandibles. He uses these organs to turn the key in a lock while standing erect on his hind legs, on his third pair of legs (a strong little pair), and this gives us the length of his body, which is about three feet long. In the course of the story he gets gradually accustomed to using his new appendages—his feet, his feelers. This brown, convex, dog-sized beetle is very broad.

In the original German text the old charwoman calls him Mistkäfer, a "dung beetle." It is obvious that the good woman is adding the epithet only to be friendly. He is not, technically, a dung beetle. He is merely a big beetle. (I must add that neither Gregor nor Kafka saw that beetle any too clearly.)