The Confluence of European Ideology in Franz Kafka’s Fiction
Abstract: Franz Kafka one of the major German language novelist and short story writer was born on July 3, 1883 at Prague. His posthumous works brought him fame not only in Germany, but in Europe as well. By 1946 Kafka’s works had a great effect abroad, and especially in translation. Apart from Max Brod who was the first commentator and publisher of the first Franz Kafka biography, we have Edwin and Willa Muir, principle English translators of Kafka’s works. Majority studies of Franz Kafka’s fictions generally present his works as an engagement with absurdity, a criticism of society, element of metaphysical, or the resultant of his legal profession, in the course failing to record …show more content…
I have counted at least five distinct areas where Kafka texts show significant analogies to Nietzschean thought. . . . The area that is first and foremost fundamental to both authors I should like to term the Dionysian. . . . The second area of at times stunning agreement deals with the ironization of asceticism and ascetic values. A third common area links the birth of the continuous individual to the infliction of painful suffering. . . . A fourth and fifth area center around a complex and problematic view of ‘truth’ and what Nietzsche termed ‘the spirit of gravity’ (Sokel …show more content…
Both books Kafka’s The Trial and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment have in common the two central themes: the conflict with the system and the sense of guilt among the protagonists of these novels. Though Kafka’s and Dostoevsky’s books begin at dissimilar situations, one with an arrest of the protagonist, the other with the crime by the protagonist but both the beginnings deal with the similar purpose in that, through them the heroes suffer disturbing setbacks. K.’s routinely ordered day as a bank officer is attacked by the mediators of his trial, in the same way that Raskolnikov’s coherent superman theory is troubled by his murder of the pawn-broker. Likewise, Raskolnikov’s chief difficulty is his own crime, which seems to exist before the commission of the murder, as can be seen from his otherwise mysterious generosity to the Marmeladovs, from his reaction to his mother’s letter, or in his dream. Both the heroes, Joseph K. of The Trial and Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment are seeking a resolution of their own bothered associations to the societies. (Church
Abstract: Franz Kafka one of the major German language novelist and short story writer was born on July 3, 1883 at Prague. His posthumous works brought him fame not only in Germany, but in Europe as well. By 1946 Kafka’s works had a great effect abroad, and especially in translation. Apart from Max Brod who was the first commentator and publisher of the first Franz Kafka biography, we have Edwin and Willa Muir, principle English translators of Kafka’s works. Majority studies of Franz Kafka’s fictions generally present his works as an engagement with absurdity, a criticism of society, element of metaphysical, or the resultant of his legal profession, in the course failing to record …show more content…
I have counted at least five distinct areas where Kafka texts show significant analogies to Nietzschean thought. . . . The area that is first and foremost fundamental to both authors I should like to term the Dionysian. . . . The second area of at times stunning agreement deals with the ironization of asceticism and ascetic values. A third common area links the birth of the continuous individual to the infliction of painful suffering. . . . A fourth and fifth area center around a complex and problematic view of ‘truth’ and what Nietzsche termed ‘the spirit of gravity’ (Sokel …show more content…
Both books Kafka’s The Trial and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment have in common the two central themes: the conflict with the system and the sense of guilt among the protagonists of these novels. Though Kafka’s and Dostoevsky’s books begin at dissimilar situations, one with an arrest of the protagonist, the other with the crime by the protagonist but both the beginnings deal with the similar purpose in that, through them the heroes suffer disturbing setbacks. K.’s routinely ordered day as a bank officer is attacked by the mediators of his trial, in the same way that Raskolnikov’s coherent superman theory is troubled by his murder of the pawn-broker. Likewise, Raskolnikov’s chief difficulty is his own crime, which seems to exist before the commission of the murder, as can be seen from his otherwise mysterious generosity to the Marmeladovs, from his reaction to his mother’s letter, or in his dream. Both the heroes, Joseph K. of The Trial and Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment are seeking a resolution of their own bothered associations to the societies. (Church