Your favorite Franz Kafka

[Taverner]

[JVS]

1. Brief an den Vater

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The Metamorphosis.

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect..."

[enigmatic]

4. Good Call

Mine, too.

[rockymountaindem]

3. The Home Movies version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ixGNMPAi8w

[ghostsofgiants]

5. The Trial.

It's very...Kafka-esque.

[bridgit]

6. In the Penal Colony & The Trial...

http://www.kafka.org/index.php?id=185,290,0,0,1,0

[tigereye]

7. The Castle has stayed with me over the years

great descriptions of the idiocy of bureacracy....

[LostInAnomie]

8. The Passenger

It's the best written expression of a feeling that is impossible to express. I know because I've felt it a million times.

[Aristus]

9. "A Hunger Artist."

Astonishing writing.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. It's mine as well, but all English translations miss the point of the entire story.

The metaphysical point about not being able to find anything to satisfy him.

And in the German, the big cat at the end that replaced the hungerkustler "lauft hin und her, hin und her" (paced back and forth, back and forth) enthralling the audience, in comparison to the utter lack of societal interest in the individual's plight.

"Are you one of the many or one of the few?" -Tommy Space

[tjwmason]

11. The Trial

When I left my last job I nearly sent a copy to my boss with the title crossed out and "XXX Financial Resources Centre Management Handbook" written in its place - but I fear they wouldn't quite get the reference.