Kafkaesque Kaffeeklatsch
Yo, so I've been reading some Kafka lately and I really love it! He's utterly amazing. I read The Trial, some of his shorter prose, and his Letters to Felice (not all of them yet). All of those I recommend very heartily.
Anyone read The Castle, or his diaries? Anyone love/hate Kafka?
I really wanna go to Prague and check out the places where he has lived and walked, but damn flying is expensive. Anyone from Prague here?
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]I've gone through The Trial and the Metamorphosis and some of his other short stories
I think In the Penal Colony is my favorite
didn't really care for The Metamorphosis, but it all still good stuff
got the Castle but haven't started it yet
anyways, if you dig Kafka, make sure to check out some Dostoevsky[/QUOTE]
This is practically what I would have said exactly. But I've only just started checking Dostoevsky out myself, I see it a little though, kind of.
Metamorphosis was really quite scary I thought, really good but unsettling when his family start treating him how they do. Very strange. He's a wicked writer I'd like to read more by him this year.
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I agree with Nat on the [I]Penal Colony[/I]. I go on many Kafka binges. He writes about what's closest to my heart (dream, reality, memory, love, surrealism). Getting to the places that inspired his work is a must for me.
Here's a quick run up of his [URL=http://www.themodernword.com/kafka/kafka_works.html]collected works[/URL]. [I]A Hungry Artist[/I] is a great tale. But truthfully I love all his stuff. I even get a rush from saying his name 120 times real fast. By the way I found a paperback of his letters, in ENGLISH!
SOme fun sites:
[URL=http://www.kafka.org/index.php]The Kafka Project [/URL]
[URL=http://www.kafka-franz.com/]Biography Franz Kafka[/URL]
[URL=http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/links.html]Mother Load of Kafka Online Resources[/URL]
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This thread sparked my interest, so I followed Dr J and Mr. H's link and read unhappiness and the hunger artist. Could someone please ramble some thoughts on Unhappiness? I honestly don't think I understood it.
Glad to be here.
You ver seen the film Kafka with my fave actress Theresa Russel, Its brilliant. Can't read the books though, lack of attention span!
There's a collection called "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life...and Other Strange Tales", which is four weird short films.
Kafka+Capra=surreal
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
I always found this--[B]Letters to Milena[/B]--better than [B]Letters to Felice[/B]. Here he's more mature, least as much as Kafka ever got over female relations...
This is it on Amazon: [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805208852/102-1688874-0228101?v=glance&n=283155[/url]
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If you want a copy, let me know, and I can ship it to you. You pay for shipping when it gets there, and I won't even sign it. 
And yeah, try some Dostoyevsky. I see little between him & Kafka as far as semi-similarity goes, but yeah. Both are good.
[QUOTE=morey]You ver seen the film Kafka with my fave actress Theresa Russel, Its brilliant. Can't read the books though, lack of attention span![/QUOTE]
i thought that was called "Whore?"
as far as Dostoevsky, i dunno whatever I had built up in my mind as being "kafkaesque" after reading some of his stuff it seemed to fit that, even more so than Kafka himself actually
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]as far as Dostoevsky, i dunno whatever I had built up in my mind as being "kafkaesque" after reading some of his stuff it seemed to fit that, even more so than Kafka himself actually[/QUOTE]
You mean the term, right?
"Dostoyevskian" is always fun...
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[/URL]“His eyes, which were pale brown in color, and not at all large, were slightly crossed – the left eye more than the right. They were not crossed enough to be disfiguring, or even to be necessarily noticeable at first glance. They were crossed just enough to be mentioned, and only in context with the fact that one might have thought long and seriously before wishing them straighter, or deeper, or browner, or wider set.”
“[URL=http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/teddy.html]Teddy[/URL]” by J.D. Salinger
Salinger (or rather his literary alter ego Buddy Glass) says he considers Kafka one of the greatest writers ever. In fact, Salinger mentioning Kafka so positively made me start reading him.
[URL=http://static.flickr.com/35/113752420_98c3df3dcd.jpg]Teddy?
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Stoyan, I thought the painting in your avatar was him.
It is! It's someone's painting of Kafka that I found through google, cropped and slightly color-enhanced.
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]I've gone through The Trial and the Metamorphosis and some of his other short stories
I think In the Penal Colony is my favorite
didn't really care for The Metamorphosis, but it all still good stuff
got the Castle but haven't started it yet
anyways, if you dig Kafka, make sure to check out some Dostoevsky[/QUOTE]
I started to read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Kazsomethingsomething, but it hurt my head, so I went back to reading Garfield comics.
anybody read the biography of kafka with illustrations by R. Crumb?
Highly Recommend it
(I love Kafka as well, and enjoyed the Castle..it might be one of my favorites) but Crumb does Kafka especially well
sorry, cant remember the title though
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[QUOTE=rachelgita]anybody read the biography of kafka with illustrations by R. Crumb?
Highly Recommend it
(I love Kafka as well, and enjoyed the Castle..it might be one of my favorites) but Crumb does Kafka especially well
sorry, cant remember the title though[/QUOTE]
Highly recommended. I concur.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1874166099/002-9913264-6891239?v=glance&n=283155]This one, I think. Least it's what I'm thinking of.[/url]
(If not, then this one: [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743493443/002-9913264-6891239?v=glance&n=283155][B]X[/B][/URL] Both are good.
[QUOTE=rachelgita]anybody read the biography of kafka with illustrations by R. Crumb?
Highly Recommend it
(I love Kafka as well, and enjoyed the Castle..it might be one of my favorites) but Crumb does Kafka especially well
sorry, cant remember the title though[/QUOTE]
i sent out a couple of em last year to frank an undertow i think
they usually got a bunch at the local HPB for 5 bucks
[QUOTE=ralphthompsonxxx]Highly recommended. I concur.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1874166099/002-9913264-6891239?v=glance&n=283155]This one, I think. Least it's what I'm thinking of.[/url]
(If not, then this one: [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743493443/002-9913264-6891239?v=glance&n=283155][B]X[/B][/URL] Both are good.[/QUOTE]
YES!! thats awesome (I had only read the second, I'm glad to learn there are TWO)
sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot
based on all your jerking him off, i started reading this book of kafka shorts that i've had for a couple years now, but haven't gotten around to. i read the first five or so, they're in there pretty much chronologically, and although i haven't read anything brilliant yet, and although i was really probably too tired to pick up on the subtleties of his writing or whatever, i can say at least that he's interesting. his first short, or at least the first one in the book, is "a conversation with a worshipper". so far, out of the five, it was the most interesting.
kafka was a big thing for me the summer btw high school and college, big life changes sort of thing and kafka just made it all extra trippy...made an impression
so I would say the best way to read him is not parseled out or lacadasically (sp?) but to totally sink in for a few weeks or months and then see how you come out afterwards
sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot
i guess i'll wait to read further until after this season of Lost is over, then.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]i guess i'll wait to read further until after this season of Lost is over, then.[/QUOTE]
speaking of Lost, i was lead to a book called The Third Policeman by Flann O'brian through their websites, and even though i still got about 40 pages left to finish it. I'm going to go ahead and recommend it to anyone thats a fan of Kafka
it has a real The Trial kind of feel to it
i didnt know you were literate. this is a nice surprise.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]i didnt know you were literate. this is a nice surprise.[/QUOTE]
i got the Classics Illustrated edition
lots of pretty pictures
keep it. it might be a collector's item later on.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]keep it. it might be a collector's item later on.[/QUOTE]
i spilled some jelly on it from snack time in the day room
I've gone through The Trial and the Metamorphosis and some of his other short stories
I think In the Penal Colony is my favorite
didn't really care for The Metamorphosis, but it all still good stuff
got the Castle but haven't started it yet
anyways, if you dig Kafka, make sure to check out some Dostoevsky