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Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen

author: Franz Kafka (1912)
date read: 2009-04-01
pages: 188
lists: german
rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Cover of Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen.

Kafka’s short stories are no less depressing than his longer works, but I found them more bearable, and even enjoyable on occasion. They don’t induce a spiralling depression, and have some very neat images and concepts.

Cover of The Trial.

The Trial

by Franz Kafka · published 1925 · read 2008-03-01
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
The Trial is closest to Kafka's shorter fiction, as it's more coherent and less horrifying than the rest.
Cover of The Visit.

The Visit

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt · published 1962 · read 2009-01-01
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Dürrenmatt at his bleakest always reminds me of Kafka at his warmest.
Cover of This Census-Taker.

This Census-Taker

by China Miéville · published 2016 · read 2021-02-02
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Had Kafka been into magical realism.