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I just finished Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Are the themes related to depression, isolation and alienation or am I just projecting and reading into it? I found the writing was, maybe intentionally, dull and agonizing. I enjoyed it a lot.
What else should I read by Kafka? Any other books by other authors with this feel? I'm also reading Sartre's Nausea and wanted to keep with the depression theme.

>> No.12361784

You're right basically. Other good books are the castle and the trial.

>> No.12361836

Read the trial but keep in mind the whole metaphor idea

>> No.12361843
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>>12361705
You are mostly right. I remember reading an interpretation by Deleuze and saying how the stains Gregor left in the wall (don’t remember where in the book exactly) were his first artistic manifestations. Besides this I’ve only read The Trial but the people I know who really like Kafka think his Diaries and Aphorisms is where you will find more substance.

>> No.12361847

avoid A Country Doctor, it has a ton of cuck feels that would trigger most 4chan users.

>> No.12361856

>>12361705
Kafka's diaries are quite tortured but then so are most diaries. But this kind of suffering and alienation was at the forefront of his artistic mind, especially familial relations and burdens and shit.
>>12361847
I read that story twice without quite remembering it the second time and found it very unsettling and shocking on both occasions.

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>> No.12362329

who /investigations of a dog/ here

>> No.12362343

>>12361964
nooooooooooooo

>> No.12362371

>>12361964
i felt so bad reading this part.

>> No.12362391

>>12361964
hahahhahah

>> No.12362484

>>12361964
oh god oh fucj my back

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>>12361705

>> No.12362672

>>12362656
oh god that's so hot

>> No.12363117

>>12361843

>how the stains Gregor left in the wall (don’t remember where in the book exactly) were his first artistic manifestations.

What book? I find this idea fascinating and applicable to my life and want to read more into it.

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12363146

Read Nabokov's Cornell lecture about this story and get back to us.

from a NYT review, "As an entomologist, he pronounces Gregor a large beetle, the lowly cockroach being just that, too lowly, for the largeness of Kafka's descriptive inventions.

>> No.12363150

hi op, i also read metamorphosis and nausea back to back. i would recommend no longer human

>> No.12363211

>>12361705
>Are the themes related to depression, isolation and alienation
wow anon how did you ever preform such laser focused analysis

>> No.12363430

>>12363146

This is good advice.

>> No.12365141

>>12361705
it's about a guy that turned into a giant cockroach

>> No.12365349

>>12361847
I don’t think I’ve ever been so bewildered and left alone in the wilderness by any story as much as that one. One of the few stories that’s actually “Kafkaesque” using the pseud definition of the word

>> No.12365411

>>12362656
>saving a pasta in a jpeg

next time copy paste, you'll get more (You)s

>> No.12365601

The degradation of moral bonds at the hands of materialism.