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Depois de minha primeira leitura de O Castelo de Kafka, ouso uma breve consideração crítica, pois muito se escreveu sobre essa obra inacabada. Do título, o autor teria escrito em seus diários que “alguns livros funcionam como uma chave para as salas desconhecidas de nosso próprio castelo”. Essa tem sido uma chave de leitura extratexto comum. No seu posfácio, o tradutor Modesto Carone recenseia, entre diversas interpretações, aquela que toma o castelo como símbolo do inconsciente freudiano. Mais
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It was intense...as it always is with Kafka.
Sometimes it seemed that I was in a dream when reading the novel. It depicts so well how we forget to live while pursuing certain aims and lose whatever we have in life. I could not decide what feelings I had about K. throughout the whole book...Probably will re-read the book again sometime in the future.
Another aspect I enjoyed is how magically Kafka describes the severe winter and snowfall in the novel.
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Sometimes it seemed that I was in a dream when reading the novel. It depicts so well how we forget to live while pursuing certain aims and lose whatever we have in life. I could not decide what feelings I had about K. throughout the whole book...Probably will re-read the book again sometime in the future.
Another aspect I enjoyed is how magically Kafka describes the severe winter and snowfall in the novel.
One of my favorite quotes:
‘Winter is long her ...more
I definitely enjoyed reading this, but I had to use a very different form of reading than I usually do. I couldn't really pay attention to the characters and follow the story as much as I could just read it and let it flow. I don't think any of Kafka's other works embody the "kafkaesque" feeling as well as this novel does, with its incredibly dense yet sparsely punctuated or structured text, confusing plot, lack of an ending, and focus more on the emotions and feelings of the characters than on
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Jan 02, 2022
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Nov 29, 2019
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