I'll agree with "The Hunger Artist", but I'm also partial to "Josephine, the Singer."
I really don't get the vitriol and disregard from pseuds on this board who don't enjoy Kafka. Best writer if German prose of 20th century and it's not even close.
>It is conceivable that Alexander the Great, in spite of the martial successes of his early days, in spite of the excellent army that he had trained, in spite of the power he felt within him to change the world, might have remained standing on the bank of the Hellespont and never have crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecision, not out of infirmity of will, but because of the mere weight of his own body.
"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."
"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
No one will give you access to meaning but yourself, there's a reason why it was in The Trial. As reflected in other of his short stories where the father figure is the guard to his personal happiness, as in The Judgement.
Just read the letter he wrote to his father and be done with him, you will not want to touch anything by him afterwards.
???
For me, it's In The Penal Colony, the best Franz Kafka story.
I must have gotten filtered by this. Did not do it for me. The Trail will always be my top pick.
The Hunger Artist
The Great Wall of China is also intriguing
I'll agree with "The Hunger Artist", but I'm also partial to "Josephine, the Singer."
I really don't get the vitriol and disregard from pseuds on this board who don't enjoy Kafka. Best writer if German prose of 20th century and it's not even close.
The Judgment.
his best short story was that he was not infinite to parties, and that is all of his writing basically.
>he was not infinite to parties
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In group situations he tended to be finite, it inhibited his multitudes.
Try the Voices from the Street collection from PKD.
>It is conceivable that Alexander the Great, in spite of the martial successes of his early days, in spite of the excellent army that he had trained, in spite of the power he felt within him to change the world, might have remained standing on the bank of the Hellespont and never have crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecision, not out of infirmity of will, but because of the mere weight of his own body.
My favorite after it are:
The Judgement
The Stoker (also the basis of his novel Amerika)
Hunger Artist
In a Penal Colony
Read the entire story collection.
Daily reminder that metamorphosis was a comedy play, if you think otherwise, I'm sorry to say that to you, but you got filtered;
>reading writings of israelites
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
/pol/
His A Little Fable.
"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."
"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
and they said Germans have no humor
>inb4 he's czech
find three strikes. if this is real you're just smiling
what
for me it's a country doctor
before the law
i'll be honest, i still have no idea what the frick does this story mean
No one will give you access to meaning but yourself, there's a reason why it was in The Trial. As reflected in other of his short stories where the father figure is the guard to his personal happiness, as in The Judgement.
https://www.kafka-online.info/an-imperial-message.html
in the penis colony