![]() I have loved this superb novel for a very, very long time. Life is what is happening in the meantime.more As a symbol of life, it is depressing, and it leaves the reader to ponder what is worse: spending one's time fruitlessly trying to get access to the castle, or actually achieving the goal? If it was Freud, it would be a nightmare in which the dreamer tries to reach a nonexistent goal.īut it is Kafka, and therefore it is a bit of all those stories, told in a meticulously described fog. If it was Borges, it would be a labyrinthine library full of books one can't read. If this was Homeros, the castle would be unattainable Ithaka. As a symbol of life, it is depressing, and it leaves the reader to ponder what is worse: spending one's tim "You misinterpret everything, even the silence." But it is Kafka, and therefore it is a bit of all those stories, told in a meticulously described fog. If it was Freud, it would be a nightmare in which the dreamer tries to reach a nonexistent goal. "You misinterpret everything, even the silence." If this was Homeros, the castle would be unattainable Ithaka. I think a lot of English speakers forget there are other languages or at least don't have any appreciation for the impossibility of precisely transporting an author's style from one language to another. So in answer to your question: Yes I think it's very plausible that some if not most English speakers are being serious in their critique of "Kafka's style". Yes, the style of writing was very "old", 16 years old to be precise. I didn't have the heart to point out to her in that group setting that she was actually reading a 2002 English translation of the original Russian text. She knew she was reading a novel from the 18th century, and she told a group of us that she was enjoying the book despite the "old" style of the language. She knew she was reading a novel from the 1 …more A few months ago, someone I know, an English speaker, was in the middle of reading The Brothers Karamazov. Aaron A few months ago, someone I know, an English speaker, was in the middle of reading The Brothers Karamazov.
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