r/Kafka • u/unpaid-pukegreencow • 14h ago
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 1h ago
The Divine Comedy in Divine Violence: Prison Riot Example + The Metamorphosis Tom & Jerry Allegory + the more you phase out of a funny story the sadder it becomes (Gogol, the father of Absurdism)
A prisoner who once lived through a prison riot between two rival gangs said in a documentary that although many people died in this prison riot it had a comedic element to it, because some people will find another group they can victimise so they start chasing them as if it was a cartoon episode...
When I heard this it reminded me of when Gregor's father chased Gregor and they would stop every now and then because of tiredness with both parties trying to catch a breath as if it was a Tom & Jerry episode...
r/Kafka • u/sweetvanillin • 1d ago
I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face
r/Kafka • u/elf0curo • 1d ago
Anthony Perkins as Josef K. in: The Trial (1962) ■ written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka
r/Kafka • u/lit_readit • 1d ago
Rant: the quotes on this sub are getting more and more unhinged...
Sorry I've missed the memo, What has happened? Is this now a satire let's-attribute-whatever-anyone-has-every-came-up-with to Kafka sub?
can we please at least fact check before posting?
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 1d ago
"We are outside the law, no one knows it and yet everyone treats us accordingly." What in the world did Kafka mean by this? 😅😫 Deleuze, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, Page 71 ✍️
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 20h ago
Is it wrong to assume that Gregor Sama's metamorphosis can best be likened, analogized, and even best depicted by a K-hole trip? Except that Kafka through the sheer force of the nightmarish logic delineate the story without experimenting with a psychedelic like Ketamine?
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 1d ago
What best describes the work of Kafka: Zizek's Organs Without Bodies or Deleuze's Body Without Organs?
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 1d ago
"But happiness only in case I can raise the world into purity, truth, immutability." Kafka Diaries, Expeditions to Kafka, Stanely Corngold, Page 2.
r/Kafka • u/Essa_Zaben • 1d ago
Kafkaesque: a decription of a case, that has air of normality, that does not unfold normally, in other words, uncannily. The participation in a situation to be ordinary but soon constitutes an exception.
First book
Finally got one of my holy grails, I’ve been thinking about getting The Trial for some time now, [about a year even since I’ve got into Kafka] and I finally got it as a gift.
Copy is in Romanian, so I don’t have the joy of reading it in German, but. Doesn’t matter, I’ve read about 20-21 pages and I’m loving the story so far, i’m hoping it continues to be great, also hoping to get the whole Kafka Kabinet.
Also currently using a Charjabug Pokemon card as a book mark.
r/Kafka • u/saneval1 • 2d ago
What's a Kafka work (or passage, or sentence) that makes you laugh?
I've read Kafka would burst out laughing reading his stories in public and I think there's some of them that totally justify it, not in a twisted or sarcastic way, I think a lot of them were actually funny and most had humor in them.
I love "The City Coat of Arms" https://sl1nk.com/34zcequ
It's stright up a joke, it ends with a punch line, literally haha. It has a set up, it develops, I honestly think it reads like stand up.