The Devil and Franz Kafka Who Else Hates Him?
#1
Posted 05 August 2007 - 07:03 PM
It seems to me, however, that he would have felt right at home consorting with emos. Anybody else get this vibe?
So, does anyone agree with me? Disagree?
#2
Posted 06 August 2007 - 08:32 AM
Someone who does a good job at what Kafka was trying to do was Douglas Adams. take the parts of H2G2 about the Vogons. it's a short part of a larger story in which you get the full idea - that he's making fun of and criticizing excessive infatuation with bureaucracy - and he does it in a hilarious way. and then he moves on to other parts of the story. and that's that.
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
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#3
Posted 06 August 2007 - 05:13 PM
I'm a fan, myself.
Also, it was probably a good thing that Adams, unlike Kafka, was not mentally ill when he was writing...
Just a question: Have you read Kafka's short story The Judgment? It's the most damn-near obsure thing I ever read, yet Kafka seemed inordinately proud of it. Just goes to show you...
#6
Posted 07 August 2007 - 08:06 AM
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -
#7
Posted 07 August 2007 - 11:04 AM
In his diary, the morning after writing The Judgment, Kafka wrote this:
This story, "The Judgment," I wrote at one sitting during the night of the 22nd-23rd, from ten o’clock at night to six o’clock in the morning. I was hardly able to pull my legs out from under the desk, they had got so stiff from sitting. The fearful strain and joy, how the story developed before me, as if I were advancing over water. . . . How everything can be said, how for everything, for the strangest fancies, there waits a great fire in which they perish and rise up again. . . . Only in this way can writing be done, only with such coherence, with such a complete opening of the body and the soul. . .
I think it's pretty damn obvious that he had an Oedipal complex.
This post has been edited by Bond: 07 August 2007 - 11:05 AM
#12
Posted 08 August 2007 - 06:02 PM
This post has been edited by Emu: 08 August 2007 - 06:02 PM
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -
#13
Posted 08 August 2007 - 06:06 PM
You know, there's only one Kafka story I even like. It's a story fragment about a cross between a cat and a lamb, and I'm just a sucker for animal stories.
#14
Posted 09 August 2007 - 02:29 PM
I think Kefka is read because he seems to put multiple layers of meaning into his writings, and gives dark social critiques. I've only read The Metamorphisis, and it was merely OK. I haven't read anything else yet.
Wikipedia likes his style which has apparently "come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective 'kafkaesque'."
And just because someone is arrogant or whatever doesn't mean that he wants to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Poor Oedipus gets such a bad rap, when all of that mess was due to accidents and mistaken identies, and the gods really hating him. He didn't know it was his father he killed, or his mother he fathered children with.
I know what Kafka was talking about in that quotation of him penning a story. It is a remarkable experience to be swept up in a sea of creativity, and I don't see any "Oedipal" urges or other such Freudian ridiculousness.
#15
Posted 09 August 2007 - 02:36 PM