The Dark World of Franz Kafka
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Күн бұрынFranz Kafka's dark world deals with existentialist themes such as alienation, anxiety, disorientation and the absurd. His work is so original that the term Kafkaesque was coined to describe the nightmarish and bizarre atmosphere of his work. Throughout his works we see the strange dream-like mixture of perplexity and embarrassment play out, and the notion of a grand organisation with its incomprehensible bureaucratic system that hovers invisibly over each helpless individual, taking complete control over one's life.
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- The Trial by Franz Kafka. Translated with an introduction by Idris Parry
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⌛ Timestamps
(0:00) Introduction
(1:10) The Life of Kafka
(9:20) The Metamorphosis (1915)
(13:59) The Trial (1925)
(23:07) The Castle (1926)
24:29) Conclusion
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@adammichael9759 Жыл бұрын
A perfect quote to end with. I'm deeply enjoy your essays . Thank you
@TheJojoaruba52 Жыл бұрын
Kafka used a lot of dream work and put it on paper. It made sense from a psychoanalytic perspective. He is writing about the worst dreams we all have of powerlessness.
@Yatukih_001 Жыл бұрын
Kafka´s novels foresaw the coming of an age when people would be more humble, than they were in his time. They would be asking for permission to do all kinds of things, but they would be using their intuition to ask for each permission. Its similar to modern day New Age thought, when you remove ascended masters and related concepts from the equation. Once you have removed anti - vaccers and maskless people too from the same equation, you will have a terrifying understanding of the importance of the content in these stories.
@sunstirade1085 8 ай бұрын
@@Yatukih_001defend your position. This isn’t making much sense to me.
@kierankehoe2275 8 ай бұрын
Que?
@titolino73 8 ай бұрын
Sleep paralyze...
@kierankehoe2275 8 ай бұрын
@Yatukih_001 can you word this differently? I’m just not following what you are getting at here
@nardoritardeau2291 Жыл бұрын
Gosh, its mind blowing that Kafka wrote so prolifically about endless beaurocratic nonsense. I've been dealing with some of that recently and i think its interesting that this was something people experienced 100 years ago. I love when history is reconfigured in my head as way more relatable than i thought.
@TennesseeJed Жыл бұрын
I was always feeling humiliated by being overwhelmed in the bureaucracy, but I started to realize with so many professional thinkers/schemers inside neoliberalism I never had a chance to thrive in their capture culture. Now I only feel humiliated that they believe I am not smart enough to know this.
@ahmedalani3513 Жыл бұрын
@@TennesseeJed Damn, you guys put what I’ve been feeling in words, since 18 years old I’ve felt something being off . You guys just removed a burden from my back that I’m not crazy.
@TennesseeJed Жыл бұрын
@@ahmedalani3513 Classic gaslighting on a country wide scale. Capitalist gonna capitalize...the assholes.
@CW0123 11 ай бұрын
@@TennesseeJedyes they suppress you by criticizing, marginalizing, attacking and censoring and if at the end of it all you’re still defiant and challenge them they say “what can you even do about it?”
@Jan96106 9 ай бұрын
I don't love when that happens.
@TimBitten Жыл бұрын
Although everyone has a unique path in life and unique views, the world would be far dimmer and darker without Kafka, Hesse, Camus, Arthur Conan Doyle, Confucius, and Mark Twain having all graced us with their eminent works. Each, in their own way, are to be admired and emulated as ideal forms of humanity.
@hanshandkante5055 Жыл бұрын
I beg to differ. Although i am not familiar with the works of everyone on your list i think that something like an "ideal" human being doesn't exist. And even if an ideal human would exist most great artists and philosophers wouldn't fall into that category because great art and new perspectives are often born from nonconformism, lonliness, pain, suffering, rejection, addiction and poverty and i wouldn't call this ideal at all. In the case of Kafka it is obvious that he was extremely insecure and anxious and never felt good enough - it even was his last will that most of his writings should be destroyed - but without these feelings of inferiority in an hostile environment he could never have written something like The Trial or The Transformation. But this is what makes it relatable - many people feel at least sometimes lost, rejected or misunderstood.
@Jm-uh7wg Жыл бұрын
I don’t think he meant ideal in a glorified or deified sense, at least that wasn’t my interpretation. The very fact that kafka, Twain, Camus (I would also add Dostoevsky to the list) acknowledge and empathise with the darker, more neglected parts of human psyche show that they know there is no ‘perfect’ human. Striving to be so is admirable, but life ends in disappointment for reasons outside of our control. I think everyone on earth can benefit from reading these authors because they will a)treat others with the due respect they deserve because of their suffering and b) feel less lonely themselves. Overall, the world would be a generally better place if more people read these authors.
@Shtriga_34 Жыл бұрын
Ngl this can be said for the West only.(not even that maybe because most ppl haven't read anything by them there too) Not the world. As a south Asian no one knows any of these ppl. Every country has their own admirable writers and philosophers.
@hanshandkante5055 Жыл бұрын
@@Jm-uh7wg The thing is, it doesn't even depend on those handfull of authors. Reading, especially reading novels helps people to understand different perspectives and therefore become more empathic. And was someone here in the comments pointed out, all these authors are male, white and from a western cultural background. Nothing wrong with that of course, but to get a wider perspective it would help to read some asian, african or arabian authors too. Also i have to agree with the statement that even in the west most people haven't read exactly these authors. Academic circles tend to overestimate the impact of certain intellectuals. News outlets, movies, tv shows, music even memes have a stronger impact on the thinking of the masses then books today.
@MiyamotoMusashi9 Жыл бұрын
Buckminster Fuller
@amazingfincher Жыл бұрын
I love his work. The way his protagonists just accept their living conditions and try to work as if nothing is wrong, like in the castle as well
@gabork5055 9 ай бұрын
This is why the game 'A Dinner with an Owl' reminds me of Kafka's writings. It's explained later on in the game why the characters act like that. In Kafka's works it just makes sense as panicking never solved anything and the abnormal behavior adds to the 'horror factor'. It probably reflects the writers own personality, other horror-writers like Lovecraft also wasn't exactly who anyone would call a normal person.
@TheNewDaVinci_Chess 11 ай бұрын
Max Brod was a true homie
@E_915 Жыл бұрын
As a 29 year old man myself, who has been undergoing an overwhelming spiritual transformation, relate to Kafka. I work two jobs and have school and I yearn the few moments I am able to express myself. The paper and pen are my refuge and when much time passes without being able to free my thoughts it feels like a fire inside me has to be set free. It feels really lonely, but your channel and videos have been subtle finger taps onto a dimming light bulb, every tap renews the light that was slowly fading. Thank you.
@Jm-uh7wg Жыл бұрын
your loneliness is universal, I feel it too. When I put my experiences into writing it makes my emotions feel more real and tangible. I hope that one day I can write well enough for someone else to read and enjoy. It is a craft after all that has to honed.I would love to read someone else’s work. Is there anyway you can send to me?
@pinchebruha405 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like you’re working on being great, make sure to share it with the world, we all have something to add to life, hang in there new worlds coming!
@E_915 Жыл бұрын
@@pinchebruha405 hi thank you. I read your message at a pivotal time and I want you to know how important it was for me to receive your email reminder. Thank you.
@1995yuda Жыл бұрын
@@E_915 You're already on a golden path brother, keep it up!
@E_915 Жыл бұрын
@@1995yuda thanks brother, today is my 30th birthday and I’m really emotional about the thought of another human whom I haven’t officially met wishing me well. Thank you!!
@camcam794 8 ай бұрын
Damn, as someone who’s disabled, that first story hits VERY close to home. It brought tears to my eyes.
@psychosophy6538 Жыл бұрын
His works are metaphors for his own life (thus characters named K. from Kafka). We are rather reading a journal, a damn well written one, than mere novels. Therefore we might feel some sort intimate connection with the author, not just the characters. We begin to empathetically understand him and feel the urge to comfort him. And if we understand him, we might even begin to integrate his lenses through which he perceives the world. Thus, I think the nature of his genius transfers from originality to relatedness.
@severiusbrandusa1413 10 ай бұрын
You aren't smart. Kafka was a total bum and his work is awful.
@fairyprincess911 8 ай бұрын
I felt that reading the metamorphosis
@paula3289 11 ай бұрын
I remember reading The Trial in school, it hit hard but weirdly most of the class wasn't amazed by it.. maybe the young age, maybe they just rather don't dive into the interpretation. Then I was able to go and see the theater play of it and I got lost. His work is so accurate in modern world it's scary. Kafka is one of the best writers, and the fact that every single thing that he wrote, can be understood so differently yet correctly by everyone is just amazing.
@drakebitmoji6291 7 ай бұрын
this is exactly what i feel when i read literally most philosophical works, it's like i feel a connection with every writer but like I'm the only one that gets it. You can understand a work but it's completely different than experiencing, relating, and really i guess just connecting with it.
@smittywerbenjaggermanjensen69 5 ай бұрын
Definitely the age I'm into interpretation and don't mind weird/bizarre stories either But Kafka i just couldn't get into back then. Maybe if i gave it another try now?
@paula3289 5 ай бұрын
@@smittywerbenjaggermanjensen69 Kafka might not just be for you. When you read you need to find the style of author and their writing thay you like. But always worth another try
@ambermoon719 8 ай бұрын
My psychiatrist told me that Kafka’s favorite author was Dostoyevsky. My eyes lit up with my psychiatrists’ eyes because Dostoyevsky is both of our favorites, too. After reading Brothers Karamasov, that is especially true, so far. I just finished Kafka’s The Trial and am learning more about him. I get Deja vu because he’s familiar like I already know him.
@villevanttinen908 7 ай бұрын
Maybe Alfred Kubin and Robert Walser ahead of Dostojevski?
@jayabyss377 Жыл бұрын
“12:42 I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” I felt that
@Fido-vm9zi Жыл бұрын
I think he did it well.
@pvthfindxr 7 ай бұрын
i’ve always interpreted The Metamorphosis as an allegory for extreme depression or another kind of mental or unseen disability.
@Cydreeze 7 ай бұрын
In "The Trial" I've always interpreted the door as: In the end there is no easy way, To go forward there is gonna be resistance. But if you don't face that and wait for "admittance" you've doomed yourself.
@DoomRulz Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who is intepreting The Trial also as a warning against the kangaroo court of public justice? Once the public decides if you're guilty, regardless of reality, that's it.
@oooo1743 Жыл бұрын
There is a thing called "routine trial" So ppl are proven guilty even before they step in a court room,where obviously everything is stage settup show
@jimberlygridder183 7 ай бұрын
Routine trial, court of public opinion..the denial of the individual to atrocious injustices happening to his peers..and that these things will never touch himself...
@ghun131 9 ай бұрын
Kafka had one aspect of him very similar to Marcus Aurellius. They both wrote and didn't expect other people reading their works.
@villevanttinen908 7 ай бұрын
That´s is the key being great.
@vivaudioexperience166 4 ай бұрын
I comprehend your point, but it is not appropriate to draw a comparison between Marcus and Kafka due to their stark dissimilarities in every aspect.
@jordanthornton Жыл бұрын
ABSURD! ITS ALL ABSURD! 🤮Brilliant video, thank you! Takes me back to when I first encountered Kafka when I was going through an extended period of existential dread about six or seven years ago. Started with both Metamorphoses & The Trial which were strangely disturbing and yet comforting reads - a very unique soul and literary experience. Marvellous man. Weird, but marvellous.
@EnclaveHater07 Жыл бұрын
The strangest thing about this is that I had just gone to my library this morning to pick up a copy of the metamorphosis and later came home to find this very video awaiting me on the very first column of my recommended tab.
@wood_stone_iron Жыл бұрын
Google is watching
@GJP1169 9 ай бұрын
I love Kafka novels. My favorite author. I'm glad Max Brod didn't destroy his manuscripts
@roberteckhardt7527 Жыл бұрын
I invested years of my youth into studying this mans work, it really opened gates for new paths of introspection. I recommend reading Ein Landarzt - a countryside doctor. It's is the only literary output he did not reject later in his life. Also his 1st novel ,Amerika', that follows a son, sent away over the atlantic by his family on his social descent into obscurity alongside the institutions and characters of the sometimes vast & sometimes hectic New World: The America European immigrants faced around the turn of the last century. Reading Kafka shaped my personality in a way only the works of J.P. Sartre did.
@AG10381 Жыл бұрын
The endless and incomprehensible terms and conditions we have to accept blindly everywhere is a great example of the Kafkaesque in modern society
@oooo1743 Жыл бұрын
Someone mentions that kafka is the best writer of reality.I believe he is because his works are timeless
@oxyhaunt7876 9 ай бұрын
I would love if you did a video on Fernando Pessoa. When my philosophy professor was lecturing on existentialism and absurdism he mentioned The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa. Reading it really changed me, his writing is psychedelic and trance inducing. He is profoundly unique.
@JohnAbraham1987 8 ай бұрын
Beloved Pessoa..🦋🙏
@rahulshankar2093 5 ай бұрын
I dear friend! No one has explored Pessoa yet, I wanted to see someone write this so bad, the book of disquiet is sucha gold.
@metrovalleyeats 11 ай бұрын
We had to read a kafka novel in middle school for an assignment and it changed the trajectory if my life 💀
@Jan96106 9 ай бұрын
In middle school? That's pretty early an age for Kafka. I tried to teach him in college, and even then, it is too early.
@metrovalleyeats 8 ай бұрын
@@Jan96106 Yeah it was only the Metamorphosis but it kinda had an irreversible impact on my mindset 🥲 Sometimes I wonder if it affected my other classmates as strongly lmao
@Jan96106 8 ай бұрын
@@metrovalleyeats Possibly not. I remember in high school where no one in the class, except me, liked a book by Moss Hart. The teacher took a vote, and I was the only one who raised their hand for yes. Also, my favorite book in high school was JB by Archibald MacLeish, a modern-day version of Job in verse play form. (I also like the Coen brothers' movie, A Serious Man, a comedy version of the book of Job.) Of course, I ended up teaching college-level English. When I first started teaching, I always made the mistake (?) of picking works way beyond the comfort zone of the students. The Trial was one of those works, along with As I Lay Dying, and To the Lighthouse. I pulled them along; most kept up, but I'm sure not everyone was happy.
@snortypig596 5 ай бұрын
@@metrovalleyeatsI bet it did affect them similarly. Did me. Was a doozy
@johngore5127 8 ай бұрын
Kafka, like Lovecraft, was a mental case. I like their fiction but I certainly wouldn't take either of them for a role model.
@masteryeet3600 Жыл бұрын
Franz Kafka is probably my favourite author; alongside Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins or Edgar Allan Poe.
@solstice1977 9 ай бұрын
Poe and Kafka ❤
@castielvargastv7931 7 ай бұрын
Damn… unhappy his whole life and then he dies at age 40….sad
@hyjjjkyikk3158 Жыл бұрын
He is very very absurdly relatable
@gardenerofthemisguided2496 Жыл бұрын
Man has emerged into an uncharted reality, which is why he strives to confront it and give it value. This man has no incentive to choose one frame of reference over another, and scientific theories just suggest how things might be evaluated. The subject relates to standards outside himself in psychology, where he can be content to be an observer, but what will he do in psychology if he is involved? What is decisive is the individual's discovery of a life value and the fact that he experiences a solution to it. This criterion of the value of life, as perceived by the individual, encompasses the "theory" as a symbol that imposes an attitude to be owned in front of life, wondering what effect it will have on the one who adheres to it. This dynamic is to own and impose a choice prior to birth. Kafka depicts humans whose choice is stolen. Either there is action in the system or theory is'real' and not a consideration. Stuck and always constrained, unable to choose between Scylla and Charybdis. The Kafkaian individual suffers the collective is perceived as a phenomenon by the individual. But dies... dies in the absence or loss of a certain value of life.
@Fido-vm9zi Жыл бұрын
Kafka, a beautiful mind & soul, revived through us remembering & appreciating him.
@rahulm4490 Жыл бұрын
For some reason my favourite novel by Kafka is Amerika....I don't know why but I love reading it and go back to read sections of it from time to time. It's not due to any deep philosophical understanding but something about the tone of this novel....there is more light and hope in this novel than his other novels....I wish someone would do an analysis of Amerika.
@parns8997 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Kafka stories was that little one told from the perspective of a builder/mason working on the great wall of China. I don't remember much about it, except the insane detail (accurate or not) on the logistics/administration of the wall's construction. The 'endless and impossible journey' that Wallace references seems to be the unacknowledged project of a lot of our technology/media/algorithms now a days, and it's so badass Kafka had a pulse on that over a century ago.
@Davlavi Жыл бұрын
This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.
@nserver109 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!!! Such a powerfull narration of his life and work
@snortypig596 5 ай бұрын
I found Kafka in the detention center. When i had no phone and my family had abandoned me. I randomly found the trial in the library and a week later hi is short story metamorphisis on the NCIS tablet.
@The-Inner-Self Жыл бұрын
Pretty awesome we just uploaded at nearly the exact same time!! Awesome topic Eternalised excited to watch! =)
@CertainEvent Жыл бұрын
I'll go visit your channel. I have a channel as well, perhaps you'll like what I've posted.
@thewolfmanhulk2927 11 ай бұрын
Thank you again as always for gracing us with these beautiful videos
@BlastBeeeats Жыл бұрын
I just finished the metamorphosis 2 nights ago. it was a very sad one, but good to reflect back on.
@gailleo Жыл бұрын
Thank you for a video about my favorite writer! Love your content!💚
@Sarke2 Жыл бұрын
Such an amazing analysis of great writer and artist, thank you
@hero9402 Жыл бұрын
Loved the video it is one of your best in my opinion so well putt and good. Really enjoyed it
@robgau2501 11 ай бұрын
Yesterday I didn't even know who Kafka was. Now, I am stunned by how much his life was like mine.
@jaybobdoodles 5 ай бұрын
Aww rest in peace
@xxjcd702 5 ай бұрын
he's literally you fr
@ambriaking8163 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it is time for me to expand my reading beyond just "The Metamorphosis."
@timirichards8111 10 ай бұрын
The book genius and anxiety introduced me to Kafka I woke up watching content about him and damn it altered my mood
@bebe8842 7 ай бұрын
Always a pleasure to listen to these videos! Thanks for your great content!
@ascendantMethEnjoyer 11 ай бұрын
I read The Trial ten years ago. So creepy, intriguing, oppressive. It wasn't until late in the book that visually and tonally it took on a Tim Burton-esque quality. Made the book so much better. Sad the ending was left undone
@Pneubeteube Жыл бұрын
My brother in philosophy, please increase the volume of your videos by 15%
@anthropolis4427 Жыл бұрын
Kafka is the first author I really liked and I'm really excited for this video.
@JamesRockefeller45 11 ай бұрын
Died of starvation wtf thats brutal
@skys6655 9 ай бұрын
Damn as an introvert, this dude is sooo relatable. Man is the king of introverts
@toniyoung8474 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you.
@Rivulets048 Жыл бұрын
Beautifully done
@nadiaregina4079 Жыл бұрын
Just Great ! Thank you for your work !
@Astrongaverage 8 ай бұрын
With every move closer, I feel more and more content. In ways. Crazier in others. ...Interesting documentary.
@averynewtown2782 Жыл бұрын
The last book I bought was a complete collection of his work comepletely blind to him. Its interesting and strange
@elitecroat4612 Жыл бұрын
By far my favorite channel on KZfaq keep it up my man.
@vincentking4618 6 ай бұрын
Where was this all my life? I relate to his struggle very greatly.
@waltersstreet 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely fascinating
@Cosmopolit257 Жыл бұрын
What in an insanely crazy good video! ⚡ That last line really hit me different. I'm glad I've watched your video, I think I understand Kafka, his works, art and character / persona and who he really was now better
@crakhaed Жыл бұрын
This was brutal. Thanks for this video.
@johnlynch-kv8mz 10 ай бұрын
3:55’I have a picture book of Tooker, George, that is. This illustration is in there, and of course , it reminded me of Kafka.
@mauroferreira3509 Жыл бұрын
great work.
@detos1178 7 ай бұрын
Just read metamorphosis and i must say the first part of this video gave me a lot of much needed context for interpretation
@edwardingania1983 11 ай бұрын
lovely, thank you my friend my madness can sleep for a little while longer.
@bradrandel1408 Жыл бұрын
That was awesome bravo… 🦋🕊🌹
@Rob_Mike_Litterst Жыл бұрын
Almost feels like astroturfing with all the love with this channel lol but because of this channel I purchased 2 kafka books 1 read already, "La métamorphose" and "Le procès"
@lohkoon Жыл бұрын
Kafka was weary of the current divine dispensation. Orwell was wary of the current human dispensation.
@jesusmind1611 9 ай бұрын
The aburdity of the Metamorphosis in my life is the memory of my second lady love telling me how I kept her up all night talking about this amazing story I read (I think in Harvey Solvanic's class, I recall quite a lot in life, in general) But I have no memory of reading the Metamorphosis, none? And yet I remember keeping the girl up all night. Kafka would be pleased that I loved his story and yet forgot every detail. Camus too! Camus was truly Kafkaesque. "We become spirtual or we go insane" every deep person ever who had to live in this world
@felixsasdasd83 7 ай бұрын
Great video got nothing more to add!
@RapPowah Жыл бұрын
Great video as always! Love Kafka but for me one of the best was Herman Hesse.
@MoralesAlex805 Жыл бұрын
The music in the bg was perfectly picked.
@markhilltaco4079 8 ай бұрын
Clearly his stories are based on his dreams the way they barely make sense. Processing his experiences. They are dark and gloomy because he has paranoia depression and anxiety. Hence his whole body pain. Speaking from experience fyi
@Nat-lg2ks 8 ай бұрын
Picture of the stairs looks just like a scene from The Laberynth
@seantaylor424 2 ай бұрын
Interesting video and an appreciated breakdown on Kafka's three big stories. That said, Kafka's interpretation of parables is not what a parable is. A parable is a grand truth derived from mundane scenarios. You can accuse them of being inaccurate, but he wasn't correct to say they're just poems about passing the buck.
@oooo1743 Жыл бұрын
The things in "the trial" happens all the time
@johnlynch-kv8mz 10 ай бұрын
5:13’The Man had the mind of Someone… we all know, deep inside... if we ever had the courage to look, and gasp at what we found; But live anyway, right? I love Him because of what I heard of him. The Man thought he was despicable, yet he was adored, and never had a clue. I feel like I remember Him. I know he is good. Shalom Fran’s, times two.
@bradrandel1408 Жыл бұрын
Bless Kafka‘s heart🦋🕊🌹
@oddpersona22 Жыл бұрын
Thank you !
@beastybacon199 Күн бұрын
He is unbelievably and sometimes unrelatable relatable
@amy9964 9 ай бұрын
Omg this man is such relatable. There are such people exist who cant live in this systemic cage of world. They will suffocate & die if they couldn't find the truth.
@swordguy1243 10 ай бұрын
I just realized that movie "The Fly" is literally "The Metamorphosis"
@MiyamotoMusashi9 Жыл бұрын
Wonder how many brands and stores i will avoid due to 3 minute ads on KZfaq
@lance5015 5 ай бұрын
The preamble says it all.. next video plz.
@somefuckingretard8289 Жыл бұрын
I fell asleep while watching KZfaq and this ended up playing, then I had a whole dream about a mostly unknown town in some creepy area where these people one day contacted beings beyond their realm and asked for favours and power or something, but many of the beings were wicked or tricksters and caused a lot of chaos. Many of the people either went insane, documented their discovery or just disappeared, with there being no trace of them and no document of them other than lost drawings and writings of this stuff and other people getting into it and discovering and invoking it themselves. One document was about a man who discovered an evil force and wanted to stop it, so he turned to greater and nicer beings, but what he didn't know was that they were tricksters. They sent him to a hotel in his town where he would then non-stop go up an elevator and reach many different floors with many different beings. Each being would be more powerful each time, they told him. He asked if then at one point one would be basically like a god, in which the being would 'respond' with nonsensical things or laughter, or both. Each of these documents either ended in a cliff hanger or ended with the individual going insane. I remember another document about a young girl who had a gift for understanding and interacting with the greater beyond. She would document how her family was abusive and all had mental issues, but because she didn't know better, she'd deem it them being unfair or that she was just a problem, in which she would contact greater beings for help and questions. There was a mysterious boy who lived nearby and was the only one nice to her, so she would talk to him sometimes and grant him things by asking the greater beings to grant it, or using magic she learned from the beyond, but after a bit these beings later tore her family's mental apart even further and caused them to hurt each other physically, cutting each other and later killing each other. The only one that remained was the mother, who tried to kill the girl, but then she snapped and cursed her mother. I forgot what happened to her, but I remember it wasn't anything good at all. The girl went looking for the boy, and after she found him, she used her power and contact with the greater beings to wish for the boy to forever be with her, but then the beings laughed and she suddenly felt immense despair and fear. The boy was taken away and thrown into an endless hell by the beings, this was where the girl realized she had no power, they only wanted to play with her. She would then go really insane and make a drawing about her pain and hatred, then she proceeded to make a suicide note, where she drew her fate and wrote a bunch of nonsensical things and that was all there was left of her. In the end of the dream, I found myself lost and later being attacked and laughed at by weird creatures until I woke up
@sherryberry4577 8 ай бұрын
He was emo before emo was a thing.
@thethingfromanotherworld4361 Жыл бұрын
Kafka is Well and in Paradise in His Spirit form of Souls. He Suffered as My Kind Suffers We Will be United in Time.
@saraslater7949 10 ай бұрын
Wow. Interesting 👍
@JenniferG-sl4fi 5 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh. This is, well, amazing is not even enough but I cannot think of a better descriptive at this moment. So amazing I will say for now. I'm feeling stupified really. This will probably be unbelievable but I identify with these writings literally word for word. So much so that I can say that listening to this was like listening to my very own thoughts, like hearing my very own biography after I die. The only difference is that he was able to express himself with poetic vocabulary. Brilliantly executing his obvious genius. I , on the other hand, sound like a meer madman. Maybe after death I will finally make sense, I don't know. After listening to this though I feel well I feel my usual bitter sweet. Bitter at how misunderstood I am and sweet with the knowledge of knowing that I understand far more than even I can comprehend. I also feel some relief in knowing that there was someone else that lived and died with the same understanding as mine about living and dying and he is considered a genius. Maybe this is just what I needed to set myself free from my self confined life. Maybe I heard this today so I can lift the burden of knowledge off of me and instead embrace it just as it is and maybe it will be able to lift me up and I will learn to live with my knowledge side by side instead of fighting it. For fighting myself is a battle I could never win. Anyways thank you for this beyond amazing video. I think this very well may have changed my life. Or actually, saved my life is a better way to put it. Thank you. I appreciate this with all my heart.
@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 10 ай бұрын
As I myself enjoy writing short fantastic stories (some of which are published on the internet) I understand Kafka's relationship with his literary work. It is possible to write to earn money, but to do that you have to study and explore the preferences of the public. Kafka obviously did not dedicate himself to literature for economic purposes. It is also possible to write literary texts because something moved within ourselves. A character, a metaphor and a story can be born within the writer in different ways and for reasons not always fully understood. When this occurs, the narrative around that motif is mentally worked on until the text forces its passage onto paper. Writing the story, shaping the narrative, exploring the potentialities of the character and the situation and letting go of mentally imagined things that don't work well in the context of the work that is being born is something wonderful, exciting and interesting. But as soon as the text is ready, it loses the importance it had for the writer. I feel it. Kafka probably felt something similar and that's why he asked his friend to burn the texts.
@barbiebledsoe1504 9 ай бұрын
7:25 somehow reminds me of "TheNeverEndingStory"
@Zac-ls6hn 6 ай бұрын
So that's where the "flying duchman" on SpongeBob came from
@ByakuyaKuchiki006 8 ай бұрын
When Karl went to Hotel Occidental.....
@user-gg6lv9bf9t 4 ай бұрын
One of the best novelists of all time. You feel transported when you read his work.
@smileyface5908 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@johnlynch-kv8mz 10 ай бұрын
5:33 I should read more of Him. I’d like to cheer Him up.
@Jan96106 9 ай бұрын
He worked in a law court and for an insurance company. It is perfectly clear why he wrote Der Process.
@Blake_.Dryden 9 ай бұрын
We have a natural capacity for, and propensity to worship. Some worship their egos under the false assumption that they're worshiping a religion's god, some worship material wealth, some worship their egos ignorantly, some worship their egos shamelessly, some worship science, some worship a religion's God, some worship a sect of a religion's God, some worship an earthly parental figure who allows this to happen. I think the correct thing to do with this instinct is to gather what makes sense from all corners of worship and seems morally or spiritually correct to you; what ever you are.
@johnlynch-kv8mz 10 ай бұрын
6:20 I read this, first . Kafka, it’s like one knows Him, and He knows you.
@oooo1743 Жыл бұрын
Infps are hard to analyze because their own analysis are hard to put into framework
@gen-x-zeke8446 Жыл бұрын
How did he know how he was going to die? *Basically starvation; sickened like the basic premise of this story. There is NO one dimensional human, or character. We wouldn't take a second listen to these authors in such turmoil inside. The part about his father played a massive role in his entire life both on a factual level, and psychological level.
@user-ye8yz3nq2c 10 ай бұрын
Noo
@markberman6708 7 ай бұрын
He is a must read!