14 Nov 05
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI agree with "Josephine and the mouse". "The Hunger Artist" is another bizarre short story.😲
Metamorphosis is one of the funniest stories I've ever read. All Kafka's short stuff is a hoot, except maybe Josephine & the Mouse People (I don't get that one at all!) I can't get into the novels, though, which is perhaps just as well, because life is short.
14 Nov 05
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI haven't read it in over 20 years, but I don't recall The Trial being an overly long book. I thought it was brilliant and funny in a macabre way.
Metamorphosis is one of the funniest stories I've ever read. All Kafka's short stuff is a hoot, except maybe Josephine & the Mouse People (I don't get that one at all!) I can't get into the novels, though, which is perhaps just as well, because life is short.
14 Nov 05
Exept for "Auf der Gallerie", I have to admit I haven't read anything by kafka... mainly because the german originals are very annoying to read because of old-fashioned syntax etc.
I once read an extract though which I quite liked, I can't remember the name though. I'd love to go buy the book... maybe one of you smart peopla can help me.
The story I mean is the one about the guy who comes into this town and they all start this psychological war on him... there's something about a castle too. I can't remember the end or anything in between, for that matter), but I know it starts off in wintertime and in the end he either commits suicide, dies some other way or is driven to move away.
Soooo... does anybody know which book/story I mean from that lousy description? 😞
Thx
Angie
14 Nov 05
Originally posted by angie88"Das Schloss" http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/kafka/schloss/schloss.htm
Exept for "Auf der Gallerie", I have to admit I haven't read anything by kafka... mainly because the german originals are very annoying to read because of old-fashioned syntax etc.
I once read an extract though which I quite liked, I can't remember the name though. I'd love to go buy the book... maybe one of you smart peopla can help me.
The story I m ...[text shortened]... Soooo... does anybody know which book/story I mean from that lousy description? 😞
Thx
Angie
We read "Der Prozess" and some of the short stories at school and analyzed them to death. I still like Kafka, though. 😉
14 Nov 05
Originally posted by NordlysOoooh thank you, that's it 😀
"Das Schloss" http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/kafka/schloss/schloss.htm
We read "Der Prozess" and some of the short stories at school and analyzed them to death. I still like Kafka, though. 😉
Yeah we read the first chapter or so of that one in 8th grade... and in year 11, we were doing short stories (Parabeln?), and we practised with stuff like "die Stachelschweine" by Schopenhauer-things where just about anybody can see the parallel meaning. And then... in the first class test.... we got "Auf der Gallerie" by Kafka, without a warning... but oh well, I think I got a B+ or something, so I didn't mind.
I'm gonna print that story out and read it tomorrow 😀
btw, Nordlys: Have you read "Woyzeck" by Büchner? We're doing that at the moment in german class... it annoys the heck outta me because a) the way they speak is really irritating and b) the plot doesn't really have a point.
But... the worst book I have ever had to read was "Die Leiden des jungen Werther"... I don't think I finished reading that 😕
14 Nov 05
Originally posted by angie88No, I haven't read any Büchner. 😳 I agree that "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" isn't much fun to read... I much prefer Hans Weigels "Die Leiden der jungen Wörter". 😀
btw, Nordlys: Have you read "Woyzeck" by Büchner? We're doing that at the moment in german class... it annoys the heck outta me because a) the way they speak is really irritating and b) the plot doesn't really have a point.
But... the worst book I have [b]ever had to read was "Die Leiden des jungen Werther"... I don't think I finished reading that 😕[/b]