So i just finished reading metamorphosis, it's really saddening and depressing when you are valued based upon your usefulness and when you read this book you actually start to see in the real world too how people are often judged based on what type of work they do, how much they earn money, what is the level of their work or degree and people just want to stick around these ppl with high source of income or respect and when you are in need no one shows up and you become lonely

Correct me if I'm wrong in understanding the values of the book :)

> From Letters to Milena.

> Even after 100 years, no one has topped this level of yearning.

Westside is an Indian brand that is now selling this perfume. I wonder how far the book has reached, and what a wide reader base it has accumulated. (Pun obviously)

Greetings!
I recently purchased a Franz Kafka Metamorphosis novel and it has some of his other short stories in it, one of which being the parable from his other novel The Trial, but this post is dedicated to "Before The Law."

I spent a week analyzing this parable and understanding how it can be interpreted. And here's what I found, Kafka challenged two things:

1. The Goverment.

2. Our own personal limits.

Kafka had an absolutely brilliant mind and "Before The Law" speaks to me on a level most pieces of classic literature haven't so far (although I'm still exploring).
I've found that Kafka is a sensitive mind and he honestly would've done well in the 21st century, although his work is absolutely timeless.

Anyways, I wrote a whole article on this. It's a quick 2-3 minute read and it explores deeper into how he challenges these ideas and how genius it was to use the man in the country as essentially a key into your dreams. I'll supply the link for my article here.

https://cloewritesadvice.substack.com/p/franz-kafka-before-the-law-the-high

Ein homodiegetischer Ich-Erzähler, ein alter Hund, berichtet in einer ironischen Distanz zwischen dem erzählten Präsens und dem erlebten Präteritum, als er noch ein kindlich, jugendlicher Hund war. Der Autor umfasst das Erlebnis als „ Phantasien der Kinder, die mit dem Jahren sich verflüchtigen“ und beschreibt gleichzeitig einen „für folgende richtungsgebenden Eindruck“ als seine Erkenntnis der Gegenwart. Als egozentrischer Weltdeuter „alles hatte Bezug zu mir“ o. „große Dinge […] deren Anführer ich sei“, stellt er seine Zuverlässigkeit in Frage „täuschte leicht denn ich hatte sie immer“ welches er als ein „umbestimmtes Verlangen“ ein Begehren ohne Gegenstand wahrnimmt. In der Leseanrede „Hunde wie ich und Du“ bezieht der Erzähler den Leser in eine Tierperspektive, die in das menschliche erhoben wird, mit ein. In seinen hündischen, jugendlichen stromern, die Welt entdeckend, kommen sieben Hunde auf Ihm zu, deren „Musik“ ihn fasziniert. Doch dann geschieht etwas kafkaeskes, groteskes, regressives, ekstatisches welches den jugendlichen Hund, der Erzähler in ein Unterholz drängt. Ein Beobachter wird zum Voyeur… weiter in Teil 2 „vom ungewollten Beobachter zum Voyeur“

I just read The trial by Franz kafka and I have few questions

1. Why does Josef K execution seems more like self planned murder, I know it is fiction, still never ever in history, anybody was executed in manner like this​. It was odd, right?
2. In K's last trip to his destiny, why was he afraid of policeman he saw on the way?
3. Why is every Lady in book attracted towards him, except Miss Brustner​ who later refuses to See him.

„Alle unsinnigen Erscheinungen unseres Lebens und die unsinnigsten ganz besonders lassen sich nämlich begründen. Nicht vollständig natürlich – das ist der teuflische Witz – aber um sich gegen peinliche Fragen zu schützen, reicht es hin.“

I want to start this book but I know I won't be able to finish it in 2026.

From which of his finest works should I start first? Because this book contains all of his most famous writings.

Should I start with the Trial?

Anybody please?

Why is letters to Milena so beloved when it’s a cheating story?