The Stoker by Frank Kafka

Sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann arrives in New York Harbor on a slow-moving ship. He has been sent to America by his parents "because a maid had seduced him and then had his child."
"The Stoker" (original German: "Der Heizer") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote it as the first chapter of a novel he called Amerika; but he abandoned the novel in 1913 and published the one completed chapter alone as a pamphlet later that year. Since his death, it has usually been published along with the uncompleted fragments of Amerika.
I tried to read this story naturally as if reading to myself. I'm still not super happy with the final product, though I think it comes together well in the latter portion of the story. I made some slight errors throughout.
This will probably my last Kafka read for a while, I find my David Foster Wallace reads and non-fiction have come out best so far.
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[@joshuaeaton6478]

This story is amazing. By its very force it seems clear this was a stand-alone story. It towers over the rest of Amerika. The absolutely Kafkaesque series of events that begins with Karl leaving his suitcase next to a kid on deck is so dizzying and dreamlike and mystifying. He runs back down in the ship to grab something he forgot, gets lost in the turns of the halls and eventually comes across the ship’s Stoker, goes into his room, listens to his story with great compassion and speaks to him at length before remember his suitcase... and disembarking... it’s like a faraway dream now. He goes with the Stoker to give the captain a piece of his mind regarding the Stoker’s state of affairs, but while there meets a rich uncle he didn’t know he had who sweeps him up and moves him to New York with him and on and on and on... it’s like an unbelievably written dream.

[@Pallettown]

His stories have such an amazing dreamlike quality to them.

[@grufgoinHAHAHA]

exactly dream like! I really miss calling it out by critics or anyone that reads him to say this. this trait is palpable in all the absurd situations and inabilty to wean of it into rationality.....I have read all his major novels and many short stories becouse I am fascinated by this unique dream world he depicts so so so well. And his books are extremely funny becouse of ridiculous absurdities that are happening and nobody seems to notice

[@ketaminicsheep730]

A great radio voice! The best audiobook of this on youtube!

[@Pallettown]

Thank you! This inspires me to keep making narrations :)

[@joshuaeaton6478]

This reading is perfectly neutral

[@copalla3832]

Great narration brother , keep up the good work ❤️

[@Pallettown]

Thank you

[@neo_7035]

thank you man

[@Pallettown]

My pleasure

[@nozecone]

Recording volume is too low for my newer pc.

[@gosianutjob9578]

How Dreadfully monotonous! Us this read by a bot?