THE KAFKAESQUE PARADOX
Keywords:
Franz Kafka, Kafkaesque, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, existentialism, alienation, bureaucracy, absurdism, modernist literature, social isolation, power dynamicsAbstract
This article is about Franz Kafka and what he wrote. Franz Kafka is an important person in literature from the 20th century. The article looks at his books like The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle. It talks about the things that Franz Kafka liked to write about, such as feeling anxious and alone and how people can feel weird around the government and other big groups.
The article also looks at what was happening in Prague when Franz Kafka was alive and how his own life was pretty tough. This helped him come up with his special way of seeing the world, which people now call "Kafkaesque".
The article thinks about how famous Franz Kafka became after he died and how his ideas, about people feeling small and helpless are still important today. Franz Kafka wrote about people feeling small when they deal with powers and this is still something we think about now.
References
1. Kafka, F. (1915). *Die Verwandlung* [The Metamorphosis]. Kurt Wolff Verlag.
2. Kafka, F. (1925). *Der Prozess* [The Trial]. (M. Brod, Ed.). Verlag Die Schmiede.
3. Kafka, F. (1926). *Das Schloss* [The Castle]. (M. Brod, Ed.). Kurt Wolff Verlag.
4. Kafka, F. (1953). *Brief an den Vater* [Letter to His Father]. (Written 1919). Schocken Books.
5. Kafka, F. (1991). *The Blue Octavo Notebooks*. (M. Brod, Ed.). Exact Change.
