• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    I’m taking a course right now and some innocent little 20 year old told the professor they want to go into academia and that poor lady went IMMEDIATE blank-face to not crush his dreams.

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            1 month ago

            When something is described as Kafkaesque, this is the story being referenced.

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              1 month ago

              I’d disagree, Kafka has a specific not-quite-nightmare but a very unpleasant dream air to many of his works, and that is what I perceive as Kafkaesque. Meaningless requirements, broken logic, ill-advised actors and some such.

              If anything, I find The Trial to be better reflecting Kafka’s style, and be less unpleasant than The Metamorphosis maybe because it doesn’t depict family members that dream of getting rid of main character.