“Although the previous convsation has long since terminated, I think it should be noted to future visitors of this page that The Castle was an unfinished book, abandoned by Kafka: hence the abrupt mid-sentance ending.”
“kafka is unquestionably a writer who chose maybe unconsciously to outline the emotional structure of the human being by using a rather impersonal vocabulary but through which he emerged to move intensely the reader.”
“Thanks for the compliment! There are a dozen authors who are dismissed as being too complex(Kafka and Joyce) or too simple(Exupery and Carroll) but that just proves how little effort people put into understanding and thinking about what they read. There are more semantic layers to books then just the surface, I wish people would just get to that place where they could see them.”
“WOW,among all the people that with them I've talked about this book you are the first one who think like me.The others take this very simple, they just put an regular interval in X of the equation and they think they solve the problem but in my opinion one has to look from other dimensions, variety of answers, reaching an answer is easy but it's important to study which answer is proper and which is not.Here I really think if we take the family for the metamorphosed one then we can reach much more vaster range of answers and you in Art and Literature one is free to chose and I believe all points of view will have the same value. ”
“Correction- they had changed, and Gregor didn't :)”
“I really like your remark that the ones who have metamorphosed are Kafka's family and him! That is so true! I happen to live with a person who went through a similar process of physical change(well, she didn't turn into a cockroach, she ended up in a wheelchair) where everybody else had to adapt top this new situation and condition even if her psyche remained intact. I pretty much know how it looks like when you wake up one day to realize that the old you doesn't exist any more. And it's devastating.”
“Yes, you are absolutely right.I love books on paper too I'll never get along with e-books.And about metamorphosis, I think Kafka has tried to challenge the modern world.criticize the system specially the reflection of social system on a person who is a part of this machine and then he wants to show how the rules and routines form new kind of people with new manners that you can't call normal mankind.I think Kafka has turned the subject from whole to fraction, I think the one who has metamorphosed is not Gregor Samsa but his family and to be precise the whole surrounding world.Samsa was like every other days,way too ordinary but in his mind he tried to face his life and change it and this is when he began to differ in the other's sight.It is the effect of modern existence i think. I like the book. ”
“Great novels are like diamonds-you rarely see every single facette of theirs. Opening up to the "average" consumer is in a certain way the best thing to happen to literature in a long time, it has never been as accessible as today. This encourages people to explore it in a time when the world is abandoning the printed book for online downloads which you can't feel in your hands, nor smell-I soo love this feeling when I open up a book for the first time and you feel the smell of new paper. What do you think about the Metamorphosis?”
“yeah, I think you're right,I took it way too seriously... it's just because I like this book so much.I didn't think about it the way you did... Let's keep strict philosophers inside and allow normal people to enjoy thinkingMerci,It was a nice talkBonne chance”
“What actually bugs me is that-precisely due to the dogmatic approach-people are intimidated by great authors to such an extent that they are scared away from reading at all. I like making jokes, we don't have to take everything so seriously. On the other hand, my personal conviction that Proust bores me to death is not going to make him look any less important then he already is, but I am entitled to my opinion whatever it might be. Kafka did write a seminal novel, there's no dispute about that. I know you meant well, but he's not a holy cow and therefore we are allowed to approach his work in a humorous way. Because, without humor, the readers would be like those monks from Eco's The Name of the Rose, who are afraid to laugh because it might be in conflict with the dogma. And we can't have that. ”
