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                                       ENTUSIASM                                                                                                                DET BERÄTTAS OM Franz Kafka, att denne hade mycket lätt att bli begeistrad. Ja, man kan nästan vända på resonemanget och påstå att han hade svårt för att se någonting alls i det dagliga livet, eller i idéernas värld, som något ”normalt” eller ”alldagligt”. Redan ett besök på Posten, på postkontoret, fick honom att tappa andan i beundran över hur snabbt och lätt allt hant...

      What does Kafka mean today?                         Kaj Bernhard Genell 2023                      What was unique about Kafka?                Kafka – as a matter of fact - used high-Romantic Ästhetik des Schwebens and without this reference to the Romantic Tradition, there would have been no Kafkaesque. The Kafkawsque – of course – is what most of all interests us, when it comes to Kafka.               But what - then - is meant by the term "Kafkaesque"? We are - as our prime object of study - looking into this Concept. THUS Kafka - a Freudo-Structuralist Analysis is an analysis of Kafka's novels and short stories, with special regard to the c...

  Försäkringsjuristen Franz Kafka - född i Prags Altstadt 1883 på Kejsar Franz Josef I.s tid - definierade, kanske mer än någon annan modernistisk fictionförfattare, det speciella med 1900-talet. Det skedde inte genom innehållet i vad han skrev, men mer genom ett stilgrepp i novellerna och romanfragmenten, nämligen i stor grad genom det som - så kryptiskt - kallas det "kafkaeska". Men vad är då det kafkaeska? Vad är det för ett slags stilbegrepp, och vad, exakt, denoterar detta begrepp? Hur kom begreppet till? Och hur kunde Kafka skapa något stilistiskt, eller stilistiskt stämningsmässigt, som var så unikt, så att det blev upphovet till ett begrepp? Det är dessa frågor - och de som visar sig höra samman med dessa - som t.ex. Franz Kafkas egenartade förhållande till Sigmund Freuds verk - som denna bok försöker ge svar på. Även om Kafka stort sett inte läste Freud, mer än två essäer av denne, så tycks han ha tillägnat sig en kusligt djup insikt om vad Freud avsåg med begreppet ...

    KAFKA AND MARXIST THEORY.             Many commentators of Kafka – especially in the 1950ies and 60ies - started out from a Marxist perspective and have seen FK as illustrator of the idea of Entfremdung, displayed by Marx in the Paris manuscripts ( in ”Nationalökonomie und Philosophie” ). This idea of KM – an ontological/sociological one – probably erupts from another term: alienation, which can be found by the early Hegel, the important inspiratory of Marx.   Hegel - a philosopher of purely metaphysical kind, a philosopher of Conscience - introduced the concept of "Entfremdung", estrange-ment, in connection with an analysis of the division of labor. Karl Marx defines alienated labor as: labor in order to own. The prerequisite for this definition is class analysis and a criticism of existing capitalist bourgeois economics. To Hegel – who was a solid bourgeois character, much to bourgeois even to Goethe …. - ali...

  Kafka" is an analysis of Kafka´s novels and short stories The book deals in particular with the means contributing to the famous Kafka effekt, or - the kafkaesque. These means are found to be either technical, in that the author in this book tries to show how Kafka uses a split of consciousness, and moreover a split Unconscious, to - by a rare trick - create the Kafkaesque. The Kafkaesque itself also is found to create an interrogation. This interrogation is created by Kafka´s use of the unique device of the Kafkaesque together with his handling the Freudian theory and the Symbolic and the Romantic school as myths and undertexts. Kafka´s writings are essential to the definition of Modernity. Författare:  Kaj Bernhard Genell ISBN:  9789180075909 Språk:  Engelska Vikt:  217  gram Utgiven:  2021-01-11 Förlag:  Books on Demand Antal sidor:  194

Kafka and Judaism. ” I was not brought into life by the heavy down-sinking hand of Christianity like Kierkegaard was, and I have not caught the remotest tab of the prayer mantle, floating away, like the Zionists have. I am the end or the beginning. ” ( Franz Kafka ) [1]         The family Kafka was not religiously strictly practicing Jews. It was a divided family: the father was the Western Jew, secular, "Viertagejude" – i.e., he visited the synagogue the required four times per year - while his mother came from a Eastern Jewish sphere with more traditional Jewish values, which never became predominant. They were simply mainly bourgeois. Kafka had experienced - if not in person - the persecution and harassment of Jews in Prague. He could see from a window rioting directed against the Jews could read about lawsuits against people who murdered Jews. Comrades to him, like Oscar Baum, were beaten up in the str...