the change of behavior caused by literature

[Veva]

I love serious literature, I mean Dostojevskij, Kafka, Coelho and other stuff, I never really liked humor in books and everything was ok until my friend told me he has noticed an enormous change in my personality and he feels that it was caused by my interest in novels, he says that every time I am reading something like that I am acting neurotic?! Could he be right? Does reading a novel have the same impact on you or it's just me? :idea:

[JCamilo]

What is serious literature?
How come Kafka and Dostoievisky have anything to do with Coelho?
Kafka is full of humor. So is Dostoievisky (a bit of irony in both).
I dunno about Coelho, he writes so badly that all laughs may be unintentional, but at least since, he is a former hippie and all, he does not look like someone without humor.
I dunno, what your friend means by neurotic?

[JBI]

Books do change people - everything does. People change, it's a fact of life. All that means, if you are changing based on what you are reading, is that you are reading very well, as you seem to be able to absorb the book, instead of just glance the lines.

[armenian]

Kafka is full of humor. So is Dostoievisky (a bit of irony in both).


alot of people seem to say this, am i the only one who doesnt find any humor in them? thye seem hella serious to me

[mayneverhave]

Tragicomic

[armenian]

i get thats what others read it as, i dont think so and i doubt that was the authors intentions

[Michigan J Frog]

i get thats what others read it as, i dont think so and i doubt that was the authors intentionsSame here.

[JCamilo]

Humor is a form of talking about serious stuff. Irony is a form of humor born from a serious philosophical skill, etc.

[JBI]

I heard actually an anecdote about how Kafka read the Metamorphosis to his friends, when he had just written it, and they actually were rolling on the floor laughing about it, thinking it a great comic piece of literature. I think that anecdote pretty much sums up the line of comedy and tragedy as nothing more than whether or not we have sympathy for something, or someone.

[Michigan J Frog]

Kafka was the one laughing as he read it out, his friends were distressed by him laughing at the story. Kafka was mocking himself because the story was so far from reality.

[wilbur lim]

Veva,'neurotic' is an acute word,but it does not befits in here.Humour story is stimulating,why don't you read them? Tweak your life into a humourous side,reading general literature books will not be relishing enough.Humour books are taxing to find for me,but using Google Books should be productive.

[Michigan J Frog]

Just read Dickens if you want humor.
David Copperfield if you can make it through the verbiage.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Just read Dickens if you want humor.
David Copperfield if you can make it through the verbiage.

Absolutely, for he who cannot laugh at Tiny Tim and co, is a very shallow man indeed.