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First bookclub of 2025 announcement. The Metamorphosis :marseybug:

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!bookworms our first bookclub choice of the year is Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis.

Because it's like 70 pages long depending on the edition, we'll cover it on a single thread. Discussion thread on January 9th.

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oh, it was a trans :marseyqueerie: metaphor the whole time

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A book you could describe as Kafkaesque

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What's the best translation to read?

Is there a translation by Emily Wilson, because I heard she really nailed The Odyssey.

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According to our friend @johannesalthusius is Schocken's edition.

I recently bought some Kafka books but in Portuguese, so useless as a translation comparison.

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I use Schocken because 4chan recommends it

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I like that the translation tries to preserve Kafka's unusual sentence structure:

⁠As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

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I use Schocken because 4chan recommends it

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BASED

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I read it in high school, right after The Art of War and The Prince, because I was that guy.

But if you've dismissed it because of people like me, give it a shot. As mentioned, it's really short. And it's really, really good. Kafka has a strange wiring style, very dry and aloof. But it immediately draws me in.

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