Although I read the whole collection it is the title story that intrigues me most with "In the Penal Colony" a close second. Kafka writes very strange tales. Tales that barely make sense on an intellectual level but work at a more instinctive and emotional level. "The Metamorphosis" could be a metap...
It makes me suspicious when a book’s most frequently quoted line is the very first line. This may mean that a book goes downhill after a glorious opening, or it could mean that the vast majority of readers don’t actually understand the book, and therefore resort to quoting the first line in the hope...
An Introduction To A Poet………………David Lloyd.One of the wonderful things about writing about poetry is the learning curve I find myself on, sometimes when I'm introducing a specific poet the introduction is not only to those reading the post, but to myself as well. Sometimes, this discovery is a total...
This edition, which backs up many other compilation editions, has been a re-read self-assignment for summer 2012.My original star rating was 5 and comes from when I joined GR and blanketly post-rated. This re-read gives 3*, which seems to reflect:1) - I didn't understand 'A Country Doctor'2) - 'A Re...
In reading this I have strayed quite far outside of my usual comfort zone. But what attracted me to Kafka is that he apparently wrote about the horror of the human condition and that his stories were are often quite surreal and weird. I found all this to be quite true.It would seem that his stories ...
My inclination after reading the first story was what the hell? Then I remembered this was written in Germany in the early 1900s where the regime doesn't take too kindly to critique in print, although you can argue that at least one of the stories is a self-criticism. Yes this book is oblique and gl...
definitely worth a read. Kafka's writing is amazing. Metamorphosis is a story where one day a man wakes and noticed he was transforming into a bug. Other stories that I enjoyedThe Judgment, The Sudden Walk, Absent-minded Window-gazing. Overall all stories are enjoyable read.
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