Hoje eu acabei descobrindo que o escritor Franz Kafka ( ou filósofo se vc preferir) nunca se casou mas teve experiência com 3 noivados ao decorrer de sua vida. A primeira chamada Felice Bauer foi sua primeira noiva na qual ele até teve uma segunda chance, noivou duas vezes com ela mas não deu certo, e ele não conseguiu superá-la, o maluco mandava 3 cartas por dia para ela. Porém toda vez ele entrava em pânico com essa ideia de casamento e acabou que não deu certo com ela. A segunda noiva foi como uma válvula de escape, ele ainda não tinha superado sua ex, Julie Wohryzek foi sua segunda noiva, falando com a linguagem de hoje em dia, ela é o caso que chamamos de "tapa-buraco" ele estava no fundo do poço emocional após o término com Felice e usou a Julie (a mulher mais injustiça desse teatro todo) para preencher o vazio, ele não gostava da Julie, ele gostava do carinho que ela o dava. E então apareceu Milena Jesenská (QUE ERA CASADA. E o Kafka sabia disso, safado. Mas eles não ficaram noivos) Ele começou a trocar cartas com ela enquanto estava com Julie, ah e detalhe, O Kafka não se casou com a Julie pois o pai dele era totalmente contra por achar ela pobre :( e o Kafka ainda disse pra ela ficar com ele sem casamento (que na época era visto como um pecado...até hoje é visto né, mas naquela época o negócio era mais tenso, ENFIM) A Milena era infeliz no casamento dela, a bicha levava tanto chifre do marido, o escritor Ernst Polak, mas a Milena tinha algo que chamou a atenção de Kafka, ela amava o que ele escrevia, ela era uma jornalista e tradutora. O Kafka finalmente tinha encontrado alguém que o via de igual para igual. Mas bem, ele meio que TRAIU a Julie né, tadinha. Mas no fim ele não ficou com a Milena, ele até pediu pra ela largar o marido dela pra FUGIR com ele mas a mana não quis, ela sabia que o Kafka era meio...doidinho da cabeça né. Ah e ele ainda foi ver ela numa cidade lá, ficou 4 dias com ela, foi maravilindo pelo jeito, mandou cartas a um amigo (Max Brod) contando que foram OS MELHORES DIAS DA VIDA DELE, mas eu prefiro dizer que foram os PRIMEIROS melhores dias, pq foi ali que ele se sentiu normal) Ele descreveu que deitou perto do peito dela e sentindo-se, pela primeira VEZ, um homem normal e profundamente amado...ai gente coitado, mas ai os quatro dias passaram, ele voltou né, a realidade bateu, ele sw sentiu mal pela Julie (traiu ela né) e a Milena continuou casada com o marido dela, então ele acabou com tudo, terminou com Milene por mensagem (carta) que era melhor cada um seguir seu rumo. Infelizmente a maioria das cartas foram destruídas por eles mesmo né, mas apesar de tudo a Milena não ficou brava com o Kafka, ela disse que o problema não foi falta de amor mas sim que ele ra "estranho à vida". Ela tentou lutar pelo vínculo, mas acabou respeitando o silêncio dele. Ela guardou os diários que ele havia lhe confiado e permaneceu como uma das maiores defensoras de sua literatura.

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Ai veio a Dora Diamant, um relacionamento finalmente NORMAL na vida dele, gente essa mulher fez tão bem pra esse homem, ele ja tava todo lascado (tuberculose) ela deu coragem pra ele peitar o pai dele, ele fez as malas e foi morar pra Berlim com ela. Sim. Morar. Ele tinha pavor disso vey, mas com a Dora foi natural (que bom né) eles passaram até fome juntos la em Berlim ❤️ com essa mulher o Kafka foi justo de verdade, nada de joguinhos ou confusão, Kafka ficou tão em paz que pediu a mão de Dora em casamento ao pai dela. O pai dela (um judeu muito religioso) infelizmente recusou porque achava o Kafka "moderno demais", mas aquilo provou que, pela primeira vez, Kafka queria o casamento.

O Kafka não usou a Dora de "tapa-buraco". Ele a amava tanto que os últimos meses de vida dele, apesar de terríveis por causa da tuberculose na laringe, foram os mais felizes de sua história.

Quando ele pirou e foi internado, ela não saiu do lado dele. Como ele não conseguia mais falar por causa da dor na garganta, ela era quem entendia seus olhares e sussurros. Kafka morreu praticamente nos braços de Dora em junho de 1924.

Tudo isso me fez perceber como o Kafka era tão humano. Claro que ele fez coisas que eu não concordo, longe disso, quando descobrir essas confusões dele, achei ele um safado, tipo o meme da "menina confusa". Porém, ele era só mais um cara normal tentando sobreviver as suas paixões e traumas como todo mundo.

What unsettled me most about The Metamorphosis wasn’t Gregor waking up transformed. It was how gradually his family stops treating him as someone whose feelings matter.

Their response isn’t simply hatred from the beginning. There’s concern, an effort to care for him, and then exhaustion and resentment. Eventually, his presence becomes a problem they want solved. That progression felt more disturbing to me than an immediate rejection would have.

Gregor’s own response also stayed with me. Even after his transformation, he worries about work and his obligations to his family. It made me wonder how much of his sense of self was already tied to being useful, and whether his transformation exposes something that was there all along.

I don’t think this is the only way to read the novella, but it left me with an uncomfortable question: when someone can no longer fulfill the role others depend on, what happens to the love attached to that role?

Did you read the family’s changing attitude as conditional love being exposed, as the collapse of care under unbearable circumstances, or as something else?

His difficult relationship with his parents, his troubles with women and marriage, his skittish nature and self doubt screams Kafka.

I believe Gregor died because he lost his meaning in life. His life's meaning was to provide for his family. When he lost his ability to do that and his family stopped caring about him, he lost the only reason he had to live.

He was someone who care more about his family than himself

If gregor had any other meaning of life than what would the ending would be ?

[ I was reding men search for meaning that why I thought this ]

My cousin had to make a model based on "The Metamorphosis" for her literature classes.

I read in Russian, and from my own experience I only know that Dostoevsky loses quite a bit of meaning in the original, and I would like to ask the above-mentioned question.

Hi,
Anyone have recommendations for reading on the idea of health and vitality/youth as manifestations of evil, or the relation of health/strength with evil?
Reason I’m asking is that ending scene in Kafka Metamorphosis where the sister stretches her "healthy young” body has very sinister undertones (was just reading it) and want to think more about this and see what ppl have said,
thanks

Недавно купил книгу,гуляя с подругой и прочитал ее за 4-5 дней и хочу поделиться с мыслями насчет коротенького,мрачного рассказа Кафки

#Spoiler Alert#

( I used to read novels as a kid, but did not continue my habit of reading. After a long time I wanted to return to read so I purchased some books this week, one of them was this one. I just finished reading it and here are my thoughts. )

Gregor Samsa was killed. Everyone was relieved at last. Because it does not matter the fact that his father after getting his whole life to work, made some very big mistakes that lead to an enormous amount of debt, but got excused for having a son like Gregor Samsa, so he did not need work anymore. But on the other hand, Gregor who just stepped into his youth, had to work to pay off his father's debt. And he did, for five years he worked his ass off and he did pretty well. He did not care about himself, rather he paid his family's daily needs, reduced his father's debt, and planned to send Grete (his sister) for a good music school. Seems like he tried and did very well, that nobody needed to work in the family except him.

But when he got transformed into a vermin (which is a metaphor, I think), they trapped him inside his room for months, did not try to know why it happened, nor tried to get help even though the hospital was across the street, they just locked him inside so that nobody gets to know about the situation. For them what would other people think was more important than their son/brother's condition.

His father treated him like an animal, his mother fainted (almost) every time she looked at him and Grete, his sister, although fed him, cleaned his room from the start was the one who talked about getting rid of him. Gregor Samsa did his best to serve his family, even so that the other three of them combined could not match his earnings. He did not deserve the treatment he got; they left him to die 'cause he wasn't useful anymore. If anyone except him was turned into a Vermin in his place, then I think he would give his 100% to do something for help. But unfortunately it was him, so his family's ignorance got him killed at last.

The metamorphosis shows how people are measured by what they bring to the table rather than as a human being or even as a family member. It also shows the dark side of capitalism by the tense nature of Gregor when he was being late for work , Capitalism dehumanises us .

For me, the most disturbing part was when his sister started crying out loud and saying,
'That thing is not my brother and we should get rid of him, and also when his father said, 'If only he could understand us in this situation, even though Gregor wanted his family to understand him(Irony)but they refused to value him now that he was of no use.