Posted by Sigismund on January 4, 2009, at 15:13:27
In reply to Re: Help » Sigismund, posted by jammerlich on January 4, 2009, at 1:43:58
Kafka read The Trial out to his friends and they were helpless with laughter at it.
There was some conversation somewhere about the correct translation in metamorphosis.
It was 'bug' when I read it, and now I forget what the other suggestion was.....something suggesting subhuman is all I can recall.
I would like to read Dostoevsky, I really would, but it would have to be read out to me. "Notes From Underground" is one of the funniest books I've read (and I didn't even finish that, so you see the problem).From the reviews....
>This is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time. But while being entertaining, it is also a poignant narration of the self-centered paranoia of a man who is desperate for people to like him. Unfortunately, because people never have really liked him, he also has a deep disdain for people. So in his thoughts and in his interactions with people, there are evidences of deep longing for companionship interspersed with a contempt for all of humanity.Haven't read The Guns of August.
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