Because some people can feel the guy who got turned into a Beetle. And it’s sufficiently sad and disorienting to be interesting to read.
You just don’t seem to ever feel Gregor.
To me Goethe is far less interesting, even with Dürrenmatt I question if he might be more boring.
I’m not sure I can say what the difference is between people that like and dislike Kafka, but I have a friend who also thinks Kafka to be boring and another who like me quite likes Kafka, when compared to other classics, and in some ways that are hard to pin down we just seem to think differently.
So much so that the guy who doesn’t care for Kafka at times seems like a bumbling fool and at others like a sage of wisdom, he definitely isn’t either of those outright, but our knowledge, our neural pathways might just be different in such a way that even though we are friends and close in age, social and economic strata(and so on), we percive and think fundamentally different.
Because some people can feel the guy who got turned into a Beetle. And it’s sufficiently sad and disorienting to be interesting to read.
You just don’t seem to ever feel Gregor.
To me Goethe is far less interesting, even with Dürrenmatt I question if he might be more boring.
I’m not sure I can say what the difference is between people that like and dislike Kafka, but I have a friend who also thinks Kafka to be boring and another who like me quite likes Kafka, when compared to other classics, and in some ways that are hard to pin down we just seem to think differently. So much so that the guy who doesn’t care for Kafka at times seems like a bumbling fool and at others like a sage of wisdom, he definitely isn’t either of those outright, but our knowledge, our neural pathways might just be different in such a way that even though we are friends and close in age, social and economic strata(and so on), we percive and think fundamentally different.