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Existential Failure in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. - Free Online Library
thefreelibrary.comI felt I was myself a crawling insect doomed to perish, seized by destruction in the midst of a whole world ready to go to sleep.
Knut Hamsun • Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This document explores the effects of mechanical reproduction on art, discussing the change in perception, the relationship between mass and art, and the influence of technology and politics.
web.mit.eduAll human errors are impatience, a premature breaking-off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
-Kafka
“Mr. Constant,” he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner selling apples and pears. But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men who lose things and use the wrong forms and create new forms and
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
the old legal maxim: a suspect is better off moving than at rest, for one at rest may be on the scales without knowing it, being weighed with all his sins.”
Franz Kafka • The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)
“Kafka, in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward any more. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”