3 German writers ..... Kafka, Mann, Hesse

[Zebra]

Kafka was no German national, but he wrote in German.

have you read anything by him?

i have read nearly everything by him

 

[Zebra]

nobody?

 

[Zebra]

Kafka was great!

 

[Treeshepherd]

I think everyone in my high school system had to read The Metamorphosis and other short stories which were very interesting. Same in college, we had a big text book full of excerpts and short stories.

I read Siddhartha about 30 years ago. I remember liking it but the details are fuzzy.

 

[Zebra]

I think everyone in my high school system had to read The Metamorphosis and other short stories which were very interesting. Same in college, we had a big text book full of excerpts and short stories.

I read Siddhartha about 30 years ago. I remember liking it but the details are fuzzy.

short stories by Kafka are often fascinating.

 

[lg325]

There is a strong lesson to learn from Metamorphosis.
Steppenwolf by Hesse was the one I came so engrossed in I did not realize the Library was closed. The only light on was the one at my table and the front desk. The Librarian just said I didn't want to disturb you, you were so involved in it.

 

[Zebra]

There is a strong lesson to learn from Metamorphosis.
Steppenwolf by Hesse was the one I came so engrossed in I did not realize the Library was closed. The only light on was the one at my table and the front desk. The Librarian just said I didn't want to disturb you, you were so involved in it.

I can imagine!

 

[GLASNOST]

I have read these German writers ....​

• Franz Kafka (but he was Czech not German)
• Heinrich Böll
• Göthe
• Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse!
• Günter Grass
• Reinhard Hauff
• Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Zebra]

Kafka wrote in German, not in Czech.

 

[GLASNOST]

Kafka wrote in German, not in Czech.

You said "German writers". Kafka was not German. You and I are writing in English right now. Does that mean we are English?

 

[westwall]

Plus Nietsche and a few others

 

[Zebra]

You said "German writers". Kafka was not German. You and I are writing in English right now. Does that mean we are English?

If we wrote novels in English we would be English writers

Kafka belongs to German literature

 

[Zebra]

• Franz Kafka (but he was Czech not German)
• Heinrich Böll
• Göthe
• Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse!
• Günter Grass
• Reinhard Hauff
• Friedrich Nietzsche

Look at posting #1

 

[GLASNOST]

If we wrote novels in English we would be English writers

Kafka belongs to German literature

Quatsch.

 

[GLASNOST]

Look at posting #1

Look at the titel.

 

[Zebra]

Now Hesse had 3 votes
Mann has 1

 

[Zebra]

I also like poems bei Eichendorff

 

[Zebra]

I think everyone in my high school system had to read The Metamorphosis and other short stories which were very interesting. Same in college, we had a big text book full of excerpts and short stories.

I read Siddhartha about 30 years ago. I remember liking it but the details are fuzzy.

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