>>29171276
He has a wife and a child. Getting used and cucked by other people alone doesn't make him a robot. He is more like a mentally instable failed normie.

>>29171745
And more importantly: Do you really believe anyone on this board even heard of this book before?

>>29171745
Yeah but it was a beta uprising

>>29171778
Well I was right, wasn't I?
actually I had a suspicion that this would be one of those threads that dies empty but since people talk about Notes From Underground and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion I thought /r9k/ might be at least a little bit /lit/

>>29172026
Well, I agree with you on the beta uprising part. Have you ever read something by Kafka? Now these protagonists are full blown beta robots.

>>29172174
Only short stories like Before The Law, the one with the guy with an office with a mysterious neighbor and the one with the mouse and the cat. I have Das Schloss (The Castle? don't know the translation) sitting on my pile of books to read but I have a bunch to get through before that.
I feel like Don Quijote was our guy as well though, in that he was an escapist upset with the real world.

>>29172250
I read Die Verwandlung and Das Urteil, both having a submissive young male protagonist being (mostly) emotionally abused by their fathers. Kafka himself had a very difficult relationship to his father and made this theme of conflict between father and son a leitmotif of many of his books. Really great reads if you are into these kind of depressing melancholic stories.

>>29172354
Will get to it, what I have read of his I've really enjoyed, thanks.

>>29172408
No problem fellow robot.

>>29172174
Kafka's protagonists are all intellectuals, aka chads so accomplished that they consider it below them to fuck Stacies.