⠀ ⠀ began: 06.22.2025 ⠀ | ⠀ finished: 06.22.2025

GENRE: short story, german lit, surrealist, kafkaesque

NOTES

• i was sort of confused on the ending and how the whole story really came together until this explanation on reddit. very, very good analysis.
• made me understand what kafkaesque truly meant

QUOTES

• "should he be advised to come home, to transplant his life and resume all the old friendships- nothing prevented this- and generally rely on the help of friends? but all this would mean to him, and the more tactfully it was put the more offensive it would be, was that his every effort had been for naught, and he should finally abandon them, that he should return home and suffer being viewed by everyone as the prodigal returned forever, that only his friends had any understanding of things, and that he was a big child who must simply listen to those friends who had remained home and been successful."