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The Burrow

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
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A story of an animal burrowing underground to build its own house for protection, survival, and comfort while still focused on enemies that may attack while scooping up smaller critters for his own benefit and survival in an interesting parallel with the remarkable insights of Kafka.

Public Domain (P)2022 Deaver Brown Classics Survival
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Kafka’s The Burrow is a fascinating, unsettling short story that captures anxiety, obsession, and the illusion of control in a way that only Kafka can. It’s a brilliant psychological exploration, and I highly recommend the story itself.

Unfortunately, the Audible narration is one of the worst I’ve listened to. The narrator sounds like he’s simply trying to get through the text as quickly as possible. The pacing is rushed, the diction is poor, the pauses feel unnatural, and the overall delivery lacks any emotional nuance or understanding of Kafka’s rhythm. Rather than drawing you into the protagonist’s increasingly paranoid mind, the performance constantly pulls you out of the experience.

Do yourself a favor: read The Burrow, but skip this Audible version. Kafka deserves a narrator who appreciates the weight and cadence of his prose.

A brilliant story let down by an awful narration

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One of my favourite Kafka stories! Would love to hear Josefine, the songstress or the mouse people next

A good read!

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This is lazily made, very clearly recorded in one take, with terrible mic work (very loud as he sits forward, quiet when he sits back) as the indifferent reader stumbles over lines and words, pausing (for seconds, in silence) to read what's in front of him, and picking up where he left off. No retakes. No understanding of the text. No interest in what's coming out of his mouth. Just a bloke with a book he's never read before, flipping pages and monotonously chuntering, without a thought to punctuation, intonation, performance, professionalism, comprehension or - and this is really upsetting - the common courtesy to re-take bad moments.

I didn't know people were allowed to charge for this kind of thing.

Offensively Bad

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