Kafka vs Proust

[@Fiction_Beast]

My deep dive on Kafka: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3iaqqKAppiEhac My deep dive on Proust: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIWcfYaapct5rMk Let me know which other writers you want to me compare?

[@street_stranger5546]

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[@averayugen7802]

Proust and Joyce!

[@Fuliginosus]

I've read Proust's novel three times over the past twenty years, and have thought about it almost every day. Nothing else can compare.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I agree.

[@xiangli683]

Totally agreed!

[@alexzhu4710]

sorry , i also read three times and each time stopped at volume 3. i admit some chapters and some scenes are very beautiful, but just can't go on😅

[@cansueceklc5020]

I just found this channel 20 minutes ago and it officially is my favorite now. A huge admirerer of both. Reading the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time and read anything published written by Kafka but never thought of viewing their work as a contiuning bridge from existencial pain to relief. Brilliant! I would be forever grateful if you were to make a video about Kafka's letters. I think those effected me more deeply than his novels. Thank you!

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@jahidhsn]

Well done. Very informative video. I know this channel is very underrated right now. But I hope it grows. Good luck.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Appreciate it!

[@joshua_fry_speed9449]

Your work is breathtakingly smart

[@mainstreet3023]

Your videos are sublime. Goosebumps.

[@Noah-xg9ld]

This is cheesy but what I like most about Proust is the way he makes you appreciate details. As you get deeper into ISOLT your inner monologue starts to sound like the Narrator's (or Marcel's if you like). Kafka, though he's good, just makes me feel anxious lol. Great video!

[@dilwashbabo5852]

what a tremendous research based work you have done with great enthusiasm in this short video. just loved it.. well done...

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

Im Already such a pessimist. I’m more than halfway through Proust. He makes my days more vibrant. The best way I can shallowly sum it up is “ it’s like in the movies and you’re bitten by a vampire, and you really see everything with more focus.’’ Love it!

[@Fiction_Beast]

I’m also a pessimist. Proust is the antidote for me :)

[@sharontheodore8216]

It takes a true giant to analyse Two giant writers in just about 20 minutes. It is a shame that they did not meet. I think the reason that Kafka is more read could be due to that some of his output was turned into movies. The term Kafkaesque is so widely used which could draw large crowds to find out more about him especially since his books are short. Beautiful summary.Thanks.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Kafkaesque has that frightening feeling so you're right it is more widely used term to warn people. Reading their works, Proust seems very relaxed while Kafka seems to have had a tough life, so I wished he had a nice relaxing holiday in Paris while sharing a cup of tea with Proust :)

[@Lea-cq9lb]

Your channel is such a gem! As I'm a rather pessimistic person I avoided Proust a bit but now I'm tempted to read his work anyway.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you! Go for it.

[@jonathanmccullough2058]

Dude your videos are amazing

[@viktoriaregis6645]

These are amongst the best literature analysis I've encounter ever. I am among the people who started with Proust without finishing it. I like Kafka, but think I was put of by Proust's long sentences thinking nothing really happened. But I will give it another try now that I am motivated again.

[@Fiction_Beast]

When reading proust, lock yourself for a few months, or move to a secluded countryside and don't have your smart phone next to you. After reading it, you notice the smallest things around you. It sharpens your senses.

[@viktoriaregis6645]

@@Fiction_Beast thank you for your advice. I will follow it.

[@rahuljha5615]

Brother you really nailed it again 🙏🏻🙌🏻

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much 😀

[@stevenhuang3635]

Thank you for your very entertaining yet informative video. What excellent and tremendous research you have done, I can't appreciate it more for that. Could you do a video about the differences and similarities between Proust， Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce? All of them are regarded as important figures in 20th-century literature and the leaders of the Stream of consciousness. It would be very interesting to see a comparison between these three.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you! Really appreciate you watching my content.

[@josephnunes868]

Kafka will always be my favorite

[@mohammadaminsarabi6207]

Bravo brother... Keep making these valuable contents.🌷👏

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you so much 😀

[@nytexRa]

I had read Kafka before; I was amazed as well as inspired by those stories. And, lately, I've come to read the Proust and read Swann's Way. It's bit of slow--pacing compared to Kafka. But I must admit it's quite unique experienced reading his book. Reading first 30 pages of Swann's Way is the best sensual feeling I have ever got of all my life. I felt that I wish I could write down those feeling, but I couldn't.

[@alfredflorin4419]

Amazing work! Thank you! ❤️

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks!

[@DarkAngelEU]

If you're interested in these writers, I suggest you watch Little Miss Sunshine. The movie changed my life as a teenager.

[@BCBell-fj2ht]

Prisoners of Spacetime. One of my less literary comparisons has always been between Hemingway and Hammett. Yes, Hammett was genre, but he was writing about his old job. Both pioneered the short, sharp sentence at about the same time.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Proust was obssessed with time and Kafka wrote about being stuck in a place. i resonate more with Proust. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, spacetime is a single entity.

[@BCBell-fj2ht]

@@Fiction_Beast With both authors, it is a fear of constriction. Part of the human condition.

[@Barnabas94]

If someone wants to work up to reading In Search of Lost Time where could one start in order to get a taste of Proust before taking the leap. I have a ways to go still but I have to tackle some of the behemoths at some point.

[@Fiction_Beast]

read chapter one of Swann's Way (vol 1) which is about 50 pages, force yourself if you have to. Then you know whether you like it or not. I got a big video summary coming in case you're interested.

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Very impressive the quality of writing from these 2 in such few years

[@gordongibson3326]

Great literature cannot be reduced to an either/or - it is an AND ALSO...

[@Fiction_Beast]

Hopefully people learn about both. That’s my aim.

[@abdulachik]

thank you, starting proust NOWWWW

[@jarx7500]

Matt I really hope you get more into Laszlo Krasznahorkai's works because he is such a hypnotic author in a sense which he combines the best of Kafka and Proust where he includes bleak but realistic surroundings in his novels but it somehow quietly pushes some hope in good digestion because of the wisdom of his storytelling, also his themes seem to be very Dostoevskian while his plot seems to be in the tradition of Gogol, he seems to be under the cloak of Gogol, but is one of the most original authors of our contemporary ages and I hope you check his novels out, he got me interested in Hungarian Literature, in my opinion Satantango is the best starting point for him.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I’m on it. I’ll try to get my hands on some of his books. Thanks for recommending.

[@sarahwestmusic]

Astounding!

[@fasted8468]

If there's one thing to learn from them it's that infant genital mutilation negatively effects them in a way proportional to the intelligence of the victim. We know so little of non verbal communication that we belittle sex to a fun act

[@Fiction_Beast]

Not sure if there is any connection.

[@nathanielziering]

What author best represents Space-Time? HG Wells, Arthur C Clarke?

[@user-yu3rn4mi7z]

Have you ever read Stefan Zweig? I highly recomend his book "Schachnovelle" (Chess Novel)

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes I read it a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it.

[@josephnunes868]

There's no one like Kafka...proust I feel people have tried to copy....wolf and even Satre reminds me of proust at times but Kafka is so unique

[@mindundi4162]

Bruno schulz is very similar to kafka. You should give him a try. Nikolai Gogol is often referenced as the “Russian kafka” (even though, the correct statement would it be kafka as the Czech Gogol) so, maybe you could give him a shot too. Personally, I never found those similarities in their respective styles, but maybe you could.

[@josephnunes868]

@@mindundi4162 not in my opinion....Shultz is bizarre for the sake of being bizarre for the most part....Kafka has great insight on the reality of what it is to be human...Kafka I put next to the Bible and Shakespeare....Google is more Doestovesky and cumos...I've read and reread everything...there's overlaps but no one is like kafka

[@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan]

Borges' essay, Kafka and his Precursors takes, as do I, the contrary view. Once Kafka emerges, one can go back and identify Kafkaesque elements in many texts. Dickens' Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit and the opaque operations of the chancery court in Bleak House are two clear examples (Kafka is reputed to have enjoyed Dickens' novels).

[@josephnunes868]

@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan I'm no expert....it's probably the fact Kafka is what made me look at literature differently and start to see the art...but what you say is interesting...

[@josephnunes868]

@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan I own bleak house but it's so long I've been stalling

[@themessageinabottle9574]

@Fiction Beast , I think you are from Turkey. I would appreciate it if you would tell us a little about Orhan Pomuk and Yusuf Atilgan

[@rv.9658]

I'd love to see a Kafka vs Lovecraft video too

[@Fiction_Beast]

Tell me more

[@miladjalali6779]

good job

[@gordonpepper1400]

Really good comparison but he didn't need to go to GoodReads - just use your own thoughts and this would have been even better.

[@gronedure2245]

This video would be a banger

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thank you!

[@medi2149]

Epic rap battle

[@johnmartintaylor9674]

John Milton vs William Shakespeare

[@chessverse6279]

"Time and space are the same." ❤ Einstein

[@ilovepavement1]

Definitive proof that genius is natural born is found in the eyes of Baby Kafka.

[@samsonwilkinson8090]

Who's better? Since when was literature a competition? Huh? And 'eight years later' after Proust's birth in 1871 is 1879. Not 1883. Which is it?

[@Fiction_Beast]

I was too preoccupied with who is better question so I messed up the dates 🤥🥺

[@frankcorona9534]

The more thought provoking question is: Who would win in a fist fight?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Kafka is a bit taller if that's an advantage. Both pretty weak physically.

[@dylanreads652]

@@Fiction_Beast You'd just need to punch Proust in the chest, he might just be defeated by his own asthma. Plus, my dad has always said "crazy beats strong"....so my money is on Kafka

[@SC-ev7kc]

Kafka❤

[@cappy2282]

We're definitely prisoners of something!? Time is very weird

[@M_Bamboozled]

Kafka was a cog in the capitalist system & had to work and worry about money and career. Proust was a rich man living off the profits of capitalism and the labour of others. Funny how being loaded gives you a more positive outlook and time to indulge your creativity.

[@mental_time_travel]

13:27

[@thetributary8089]

Nice, but can you not absolutely spoil the ending of the trial without warning? Spoiler alerts are really important.

[@markspano3468]

Are we prisoners of time or space? Yes

[@Fiction_Beast]

interestingly both were writing when Einstein was writing his papers on spacetime and relativity. I was trying to be clever with my title suggesting that Proust was a poet of time and K was a poet of tight spaces.

[@markspano3468]

Very tight spaces.

[@mortimer2469]

Proust wrote most famous novel... Hm... In opinion of critics maybe...

[@Fiction_Beast]

Yes

[@becar9525]

Proust

[@danschneider7531]

Neither a poet, metaphorically or not.

[@austinquick6285]

Must be nice not to work like Proust.

[@graybow2255]

Kafka is one of the most overrated writers.

[@Fiction_Beast]

I thought so too

[@timidlove]