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I was looking forward to writing a review on this one. I was very close to joining the 2�3 star review alliance.
This was my first Kafka, and although I am planning to give his other works a go, getting through this was painful! It wasn’t uncommon for me to re-read entire sentences, trying to make sense of a paragraph, and then turn to Google for help. I realise this was part of the “Kafkaesque� experience (or perhaps the translation), but crikey—why did some dialogues need to be that complex?
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This was my first Kafka, and although I am planning to give his other works a go, getting through this was painful! It wasn’t uncommon for me to re-read entire sentences, trying to make sense of a paragraph, and then turn to Google for help. I realise this was part of the “Kafkaesque� experience (or perhaps the translation), but crikey—why did some dialogues need to be that complex?
So ...more
Jan 02, 2022
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