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To be sure, I adore Kafka, but mostly in novel form such as The Castle, Amerika and so on. While I can appreciate some of the stories in this volume, including the famous Metamorphosis and dark, comedic, absurd takes such as Description of a Struggle and In the Penal Colony, I admittedly did not connect to much of the volume; many of the stories meander on like H.P. Lovecraft, but pretending to be a dog or a mole. Not bad. Not amazing.

"And so long as you say" one" instead of "I", there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is you yourself, you feel as though transfixed and are horrified.", In the short story" Wedding Preparations in the Country", by Franz Kafka.
One of the many things I'm loving about this anthology is getting to know Kafka's humour a bit better.

La Metamorfosi e La Colonia Penale bellissimi, lasciano una sensazione di inquietudine e di malessere incredibile. Gli altri racconti invece troppo brevi o troppo poco incisivi per lasciarmi qualcosa. Peccato.

#QuotsyJun21 Day 13: #Axe

This book includes all the stories written by Franz Kafka. From small to... long-ish. What an exceptional writer, what unique mind. Even after reading and rereading and rereading again, there's always something new to find in his texts.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

tentative top 10 (in the order they were read)

1. the metamorphosis
2. in the penal colony
3. blumfeld, an elderly bachelor
4. a hunger artist
5. the burrow
6. the bridge
7. the bucket rider
8. fellowship
9. the problem of our laws
10. on parables

#Bookhaul thanks to big coupon 😁! I can‘t believe I didn‘t have the two on the right until now. I have the TTC in a collection, not on its own 👍🏻👍🏻.

Do you own and have you read any of these?!

#MrBooksBooks

Why are you like this, Kafka. You hurt my depressive soul already.

Anyone else subscribe to season of stories through penguin random house? It's coming back for spring on 4/17 with some big name authors. It's a short story emailed in 4 parts.
Here's the link to subscribe and it's free!
http://theseasonofstories.com/?cdi=3DD2C5F8FC9E0C0BE0534FD66B0A7B88%3Fref%3DPRH5...

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

I can't get over how cute these cards that @ju.ca.no included in my #cupidgoespostal gift are 😍🔝

Strange. Compelling. Unsettling. Leaves the reader feeling as though they've seen something they shouldn't have.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Spent so much time agonizing over what book to bring along to #BEA16 and never even cracked the cover. I know better.