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Josephine the Singer, or the Mousefolk:

Hard to read without picturing the American Tail movies. (lol)

More seriously: One of my favorites of the stories in this collection. It's a story of a misunderstood, unappreciated artist told from the perspective of the misunderstanding, unappreciative audience. Not hard to think of what Kafka's inspiration likely was.

It's really hard to not imagine the American Tail movies reading "Josephine the Singer, or the Mousefolk"

"The judgment"s ending WAS SO unexpected and highkey caught me off gaurd. I really like how the author really selled the main character's reasoning as to why he did not contact his friend, just to make us feel stupid, and unreasonable for even believing him in the first place (through the fathers point of view). I genuinely felt stupid by the end of the chapter (and also had my critical thinking skills questioned )

A Hunger Artist:

At first it seemed to be about the "noble suffering' those who are ill and/or disabled are expected to go through, and maybe it is a little bit. It could also be about losing oneself in your art so much you forget why you started. I also read an interpretation online about it being willpower vs natural human impulse, and I can see that too.

All right all right im back ! (Took me long enough ). So i put this book down and read like 4 books before deciding to pick it up again. This was mostly due to the fact that i was going to restart the book so that i can really take my time understanding this book and not rush through it A certian someone gave this book really high praise and i want to do them justice by being able to decifer the deeper meaning!