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The Metamorphosis serves as a good exploration of what encapsulates the question "What is a human being?" However, throughout the meditations, and this short story, Kafka's obsession with the relationship with his father is too prevalent and takes up too much of the focus. Hopefully, his next short stories focus on something different and have an alternative outcome rather than his predictable death sentence.

Read “The Judgment” today. Utterly incredible, yet very confusing. Kafka sets the scene of a young businessman writing a letter to his forlorn friend living in St. Petersburg, while he’s living with his father and they’re dealing with the loss of their mother. It becomes this overwhelming, kind of mystical confrontation between father and son. Loved it, can’t wait to read Metamorphosis next

As I make my way through the collection "Meditation," I find Kafka's flash fiction surprisingly affecting. "The Sudden Walk" and "Bachelor's Ill Luck" are particularly resonant stories.

My favourites thus far have been The Judgement and Unhappiness [Meditations]. The prose is strange - there being a great many lengthy sentences - but still enjoyable. Yesterday I read some aloud to my cats. They were unamused, as to be expected. Love you Elsa.

Franz Kafka’s ‘Meditations’ so far are some interesting short stories, of varying lengths and contents, all dealing with various social and societal eccentricities. None are observations that would be out of place among the thoughts of some introverted, angsty person disconcerted with the social norms of public society