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Kafka's Social Discourse - An Aesthetic Search for Community (Paperback)
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Kafka's Social Discourse - An Aesthetic Search for Community (Paperback)
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Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to
examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what
his contemporary Max Weber termed "the iron cage" of society.
Ferdinand Toennies had defined the problem of finding community
within society for Kafka and his peers in his 1887 book
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. Kafka took up this issue by focusing
upon the "social discourse" of human relationships. In this book,
Mark E. Blum examines Kafka's three novels, Amerika, The Trial, and
The Castle, in their exploration of how community is formed or
eroded in the interpersonal relations of its protagonists. Critical
literature has recognized Kafka's ability to narrate the gestural
moment of alienation or communion. This "social discourse" was
augmented, however, by a dimension virtually no commentator has
recognized-Kafka's conversation with past and present authors.
Kafka encoded authors and their texts representing every century of
the evolution of modernism and its societal problems, from Bunyan
and Defoe, through Pope and Lessing, to Fontane and Thomas Mann.
The inter-textual conversation Kafka conducted can enable us to
appreciate the profound human problem of realizing community within
society. Cultural historians as well as literary critics will be
enriched by the evidence of these encoded cultural conversations.
Kafka's "Imperial Messenger" may finally be heard in the full
history of his emanations. Kafka encoded not only past authors, but
painters as well. Kafka had been known as a graphic artist in his
youth, and was informed by expressionism and cubism as he matured.
Kafka's encodings of literature as well as fine art are not solely
of the work to which he refers, but the community of authors or
painters and their success or failure of community. Kafka's
encodings were meant as an extra-textual readings for astute
readers, but also as a lesson to his fellow authors whom he held
accountable in his correspondence as cultural messengers.
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