Franz Kafka

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is ability to suggest at once the atmosphere of an anxiety dream, the theology of the Book of Job, and the police terrorism and bureaucratic anonymity of the society that inspired Freud's term 'censor.'.

largely due to the way in which such stories as The Trial or The Castle manage to suggest at once the atmosphere of an anxiety dream, the theology of the Book of Job, and the police terrorism and bureaucratic anonymity of the society that inspired Freud's term 'censor.'

is a writer in whose work there is no lapse of time. The novels are without seasonal changes... most scenes take place at night indoors. Days or weeks pass, but there is no development... time does not clarify or even intensify the confusion.

In Kafka there is no lapse of time. His world is entirely a city-world (the village of The Castle might equally well be a tenement, there is no nature here) without seasonal changes... most scenes take place at night indoors. We hear of days or weeks passing, but there is no development... time does not clarify or even intensify the confusion, though it shows that the labyrinth is more extensive than the hero earlier thought. Anders uses the term 'paralysed time', Mendilow speaks of 'a temporal vacuum'. Kafka's time is the timelessness of a dream. His heroes set out again and again, but there new activity does not grow organically out of their earlier, it is not a true succession, it is a perpetual starting again. His heroes might say, with the narrator of Investigations of a Dog: 'how my life has changed, and how at bottom it has not changed.

is concerned with the idea that the struggle to establish a self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle.

is a writer whose evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

, in order to do justice to his work's purity and peculiar beauty, one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

is a writer whose fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too.

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.

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