Classe du 8 novembre 2004: Kafka
Classe du 8 novembre 2004
LBCL490
Kafka 1
particularity of Kafka's voice
attention to detail, to dirt.
he's a minimalist. very simple writting.
infinite distance, never gratification.
difficulty of interpretation. writting stories that seems like paraboles or allegories but doesn't work like'em. details, not "religious", meaning undetermined. unexplained?
"Before the Law"
who's the king, what's the law?
trapped in passivity
bureaucratic nightmare.
poet of urban, bureaucratic existence.
totalitarian regime. absurd. inavailability of law.
mechanized existence leading to massive disasters (see holocauste)
(popularity of Kafka post-holocauste)
ubiquitous tone of ironic understatement
litteralism (he's a beetle), excessivity
fiction back to metaphysical
much less about the psychological. interioor monologue rare, undevellopped.
man relation to law, justice, society. do they exist?
law might well be a fabrication.
rejection of epiphany. no compensatory moment (unlike transcendance in Proust of Mrs. Dalloway).
God will come but one day to late. Law exist, you're just never gonna get there.
closest figure to Kafka is Chaplin: Modern Time, man gobbed by machine.
influence of kierkegaard. night of infinite resignation. kierkegardian esthetique without compensation, without being sure there's a god on the other side.
Kafka's story of Abraham
B1883, dies 1925, jew, in prague , austro-hungarian empire, lawyer, works in insurence, part of bureaucracy. 1917 devellops tuberculosis. dies voiceless (laryinx). very painfull. short storiies written b/w 1914-1922, academy 1919. publishes in "the jew".
he wanted his writting being burned. "whitout exception and preferaably unread".
he spoke german, not chzech (other jews would speak yiddish). he's a jew. double minority.
R Alter: says kafka as a surface quality that is universal. jewishness is nevertheless at the depth of it. danger, exile, revelation, law, tradition, commandements. linguistic minority. speaking about law is sppeaking about the jewish law.
involved in zionism. self-teached hebrew.
he's his own best interpretor. writting impermeable. final answers evasive.
I failed so completely nobody as ever failed like me.
instinctual beneath the civilized.
never qualifies.
the overarching power is never accessible it's just ppeople punishing others, self-coercing.
parabole of the artist. how do you navigate from one psyche to the other?
LBCL490
Kafka 1
particularity of Kafka's voice
attention to detail, to dirt.
he's a minimalist. very simple writting.
infinite distance, never gratification.
difficulty of interpretation. writting stories that seems like paraboles or allegories but doesn't work like'em. details, not "religious", meaning undetermined. unexplained?
"Before the Law"
who's the king, what's the law?
trapped in passivity
bureaucratic nightmare.
poet of urban, bureaucratic existence.
totalitarian regime. absurd. inavailability of law.
mechanized existence leading to massive disasters (see holocauste)
(popularity of Kafka post-holocauste)
ubiquitous tone of ironic understatement
litteralism (he's a beetle), excessivity
fiction back to metaphysical
much less about the psychological. interioor monologue rare, undevellopped.
man relation to law, justice, society. do they exist?
law might well be a fabrication.
rejection of epiphany. no compensatory moment (unlike transcendance in Proust of Mrs. Dalloway).
God will come but one day to late. Law exist, you're just never gonna get there.
closest figure to Kafka is Chaplin: Modern Time, man gobbed by machine.
influence of kierkegaard. night of infinite resignation. kierkegardian esthetique without compensation, without being sure there's a god on the other side.
Kafka's story of Abraham
B1883, dies 1925, jew, in prague , austro-hungarian empire, lawyer, works in insurence, part of bureaucracy. 1917 devellops tuberculosis. dies voiceless (laryinx). very painfull. short storiies written b/w 1914-1922, academy 1919. publishes in "the jew".
he wanted his writting being burned. "whitout exception and preferaably unread".
he spoke german, not chzech (other jews would speak yiddish). he's a jew. double minority.
R Alter: says kafka as a surface quality that is universal. jewishness is nevertheless at the depth of it. danger, exile, revelation, law, tradition, commandements. linguistic minority. speaking about law is sppeaking about the jewish law.
involved in zionism. self-teached hebrew.
he's his own best interpretor. writting impermeable. final answers evasive.
I failed so completely nobody as ever failed like me.
instinctual beneath the civilized.
never qualifies.
the overarching power is never accessible it's just ppeople punishing others, self-coercing.
parabole of the artist. how do you navigate from one psyche to the other?
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