I expected this to be a picture of Robert Walser’s works, he’s even more commonly given that name. Early critics of the few short works Kafka punished in his lifetime explicitly compared him to Walser, an author who’s now very obscure compared to him.
Bruno Schulz is the closest, a similarly dark eastern euro style. Only other ones I can think if that haven't been mentioned already are Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Ambrose Bierce (the stories categorized as "tall tales," which should help illuminate why Kafka thought his own work was fricking hilarious), and Nabokov (Invitation to a Beheading is so close to Kafka that I remember Cornfather got pissed off about the comparison in am interview or something).
>The Blind Owl
As schizo as a book can possibly get in the literal sense - you feel like you're losing your mind as you read it and the narrator doesn't fall apart in some neat dreamy way but in a serious mental illness way. There's a reason it's renowned for being cursed. >The Street of Crocodiles
Mentioned above, Schulz is probably the closest to Kafka. Can switch back and forth between dark and whimsical at will. >Pedro Paramo
Clear root of later Latin magical realism. Spirit journey type stuff, dances with the dead, morbid hijinx. >Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov getting lost and accidentally writing about a world that isn't. Dreamiest out of these, I'd say, with the lightest feeling. >The Opposing Shore
Haven't read this, but Balcony in the Forest was good enough that I'd say it can't be bad. BitF is very fantastic, reads like a 20th century protagonist is lost in a fairytale and can't escape the nagging feeling that he needs to start seeing through it.
Pedro Paramo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
House of the Spirits
looks good thanks
Dag Solstad, novel 11 book 18.
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee
the Traitor’s Niche - kadare
I consider this to be a minor masterpiece, have any anons read it?
Strugatsky novels are absolutely Kafkaesque.
The Doomed City in particular was brilliant.
You have read proto Kafka, right? Right?
OP didnt ask why dif the chicken cross the street
I expected this to be a picture of Robert Walser’s works, he’s even more commonly given that name. Early critics of the few short works Kafka punished in his lifetime explicitly compared him to Walser, an author who’s now very obscure compared to him.
Shut up, moron
Read Heinrich Boll’s short stories. The one that comes immediately to mind is “Like a Bad Dream”
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu. They can't translate his works fast enough.
Bruno Schulz is the closest, a similarly dark eastern euro style. Only other ones I can think if that haven't been mentioned already are Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Ambrose Bierce (the stories categorized as "tall tales," which should help illuminate why Kafka thought his own work was fricking hilarious), and Nabokov (Invitation to a Beheading is so close to Kafka that I remember Cornfather got pissed off about the comparison in am interview or something).
>Kafkaesque absurdism
Describe it better.
You don’t even know what those two words mean, hombre
Still waiting for you to describe it better.
Still waiting for you to even remotely describe Kafka’s writing with accuracy
Still waiting for you to describe it more accurately.
go back
Calling it
>Kafkaesque absurdism
is peak reddit moronation, hence why you want everyone to join you and your boyfriends
Still waiting for you to describe it better.
Still waiting for you to describe it better.
Kobo Abe
>The Woman in the Dunes
>The Face of Another
>The Box Man
libertarian economics
Naked Lunch.
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
Who are the best?
none, it's a shitty genre. frick every single author namedropped ITT and frick every anon who dropped a rec.
>The Blind Owl
As schizo as a book can possibly get in the literal sense - you feel like you're losing your mind as you read it and the narrator doesn't fall apart in some neat dreamy way but in a serious mental illness way. There's a reason it's renowned for being cursed.
>The Street of Crocodiles
Mentioned above, Schulz is probably the closest to Kafka. Can switch back and forth between dark and whimsical at will.
>Pedro Paramo
Clear root of later Latin magical realism. Spirit journey type stuff, dances with the dead, morbid hijinx.
>Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov getting lost and accidentally writing about a world that isn't. Dreamiest out of these, I'd say, with the lightest feeling.
>The Opposing Shore
Haven't read this, but Balcony in the Forest was good enough that I'd say it can't be bad. BitF is very fantastic, reads like a 20th century protagonist is lost in a fairytale and can't escape the nagging feeling that he needs to start seeing through it.
Memoirs found in a bathtub