Favorite Kafka story? nt

[clarice]

[surrealAmerican]

1. In the Penal Colony

[clarice]

2. Good one. nt

[Aristus]

8. I thought I would be the first or only one to choose this.

Although A Hunger Artist is a close second.

[LiberalElite]

3. Metamorphosis nt

[Jenoch]

4. I was not much into literature in the 10th grade,

but that story certainly grabbed my attention.

[rug]

6. Best opening line ever.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

[840high]

15. ....

[magical thyme]

5. I would prefer not to

Can't remember the title at the moment. Only the critical line, which has been a theme of my life. think i'llhave another sip of mead.

bartleby. remembered it right after I posted. the scrivener bartelby.

[rug]

7. Bartheleby, the Scrivener,

“Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him.

"I would prefer not to quit you", he replied, gently emphasizing the not.”

The poor lawyer, who is never named.

[Aristus]

9. Bartleby The Scrivener is by Herman Melville.

n/t

[magical thyme]

14. omg, you're right! lol!!!!

All these years I've somehow remembered it as Kafka.

[cemaphonic]

10. I like "The Burrow"

Like most Kafka, it's loaded with symbolism, but even on the surface level, it's a really effective creepy story.

[kentauros]

11. 1991

Okay, that's just the year the movie "Kafka" was released. Here's the full movie on YT, and I may just be watching it either tonight or tomorrow. Haven't seen it in ages, and always loved it

[clarice]

13. Thanks, I'm going to watch it too. nt

[clarice]

12. I also like "Josephine the Singer". Wonderful allegory. nt

[Tom Ripley]

16. A Hunger Artist

[Boom Sound 416]

17. The one about him and the Turkish hooker is my fav

[clarice]

18. That's a great one....so eerily dreamy. nt