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Good article. I've only read The Metamorphosis but I think this makes sense. Looking back on it, the 'three lodgers' in that book present a funny, absurd scenario.

I prefer reading relatively short and simple classics like The Metamorphosis - if anyone has some recommendations I'd be interested.



My very favorite extremely short piece of Kafka's writing - just one magical sentence: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

The other short anecdotal pieces linked in that page are also wonderful. Here's one: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

And another, which (to me) is one of many counter-examples to the "Laughing With Kafka" notion: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

That is, the final piece above is truly despairing in a way that DFW, perhaps, could identify with.


Wow! I've never seen these works and they're brilliant. You've made my day!

And, yes, the final piece is perfectly what DFW was talking about.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(novel)


penal colony, a hunger artist.


Those sound good

here's a link I found to 'In the Penal Colony' for anyone interested

http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/793CA_web/PenalColony.pdf




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