Kafka for Now, A Note on Translations Soon

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A very good read. My first dabbling in Kafka from a somewhat extended dabbling in existentialism. If I had to buy this book again I would not be buying it for "The Metamorphosis." A decent tale, but "In the Penal Colony" and "A Report to an Academy" were the real winners. I plan to do a comment on books in translation in the very near future over at http://unronic.blogspot.com. here by the end of the week; I promise.


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If You Only Read One Trans-Genre, WWII, Science-Fact-tion, Literary Heavyweight, Conspiracy-Thriller this Year...

Make sure it has poetry about a man freezing his junk off with liquid oxygen:

The was a young man from Decatur

Who slept with a LOX generator

His balls and his prick

Froze solid real quick

And his asshole a little bit later

-T. Pynchon

While browsing the annals of twitter this morning I came across a List of twenty-six good reasons to read, (or reasons why it is bad not to read for all my pessimist friends). I figured that list qualifies as good a reason as any to (finally) tackle a thick little novel called Gravity’s Rainbow