

Each masterpiece is available through FSU Libraries, patiently waiting for your review.Īs pleasurable as reading classics can be, it is not enough for me to simply read a novel from the famed author, I must become fully immersed in their work. In no particular order, I recommend “In The Penal Colony,” the infamous “Metamorphosis”, and most notably “The Stoker,” which asserts itself as the supposed first chapter of the incomplete novel, Amerika.

If you are not familiar with Kafka, I recommend a couple of his short stories. Retrospectively, maybe Brod should be considered less of a friend and more of one tainted by capitalistic tendencies, who ignored the dying wishes of his beloved friend for profit! Still, we thank him for preserving Kafka’s works. If not for Kafka’s longtime friend, Max Brod, Kafka’s work would remain unpublished or worse. We lost a literary gem to Kafka’s egocentric paralysis after he spent his remaining moments burning 90% of his finished novels and drafts. It was never to be finished by the same hands that sculpted it. It has recently come to my attention that during this week 110 years ago, on February 14, 1913, Kafka abruptly halted his pursuit of Amerika. It is most certainly an interesting read, to say the least. We have wardens, bankers, lawyers, floggers, and the occupations and personalities accompanying them seem to be boundless.
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I adore the bitter slowness of the protagonist’s own comprehension of the trial.

My experience so far, you may ask, consists of me sinking deeper into my hunchback position and feasting off Kafka’s depressing tale. Hello, fellow literary connoisseurs! I am currently engaging in Franz Kafka’s Germanic dystopian The Trial. This post was written by Yenesis Sotomayor, Special Collections & Archives collections management associate.
