Kafka: when the self talks to the self about the self.This article deals with the complicated relationship between Kafka Kaf·ka , Franz 1883-1924. Austrian writer whose stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. and his father, portrayed por·tray tr.v. por·trayed, por·tray·ing, por·trays 1. To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of. 2. To depict or describe in words. 3. To represent dramatically, as on the stage. in the famous letter to Hermann Kafka. The study starts with a theoretical briefing of the relationship between the autobiography autobiography: see biography. autobiography Biography of oneself narrated by oneself. Little autobiographical literature exists from antiquity and the Middle Ages; with a handful of exceptions, the form begins to appear only in the 15th century. and the literary letter. Then follows an elaborated analysis of the text highlighting the father-son crisis and vice versa VICE VERSA. On the contrary; on opposite sides. , considering the factors which contributed to the portraying of the father's image as a monstrous, ruthless, and brutal authority--a theme which is central and repeatedly problematized in Kafka's literary work. |
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