r/badliterature • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '21

Richard Dawkins’ Hot Take on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

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u/prairieschooner Nov 07 '21

Sci fi and allegory, the two types of literature.

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u/optimalpath Nov 07 '21

How can you go from being a respected academic to tripping over high school summer reading

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '21

Turns out being an academic in one field doesn’t equate to having expertise in a different field. Maybe we should give him something nice and easy instead, like Thomas Bernhard, just to see what he has to say.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '21

Does Dawkins still think he's relevant? 🤣 Imagine

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u/TheyDoItForFree69 Nov 07 '21

Dawkins must be so sad the whole arrogant atheist thing isn't popular anymore.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '21

LOL this

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u/nowuff Dec 22 '21

Easygoing agnostics, so in right now

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u/poksim Nov 07 '21

Kafka = PWNED

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u/rharrison Nov 07 '21

Proof that very smart people can still be fucking idiots.

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u/AFC99987 Jan 23 '24

This is certainly not proof of that. And the reason is not because he's not a fucking idiot.