SEMANTIC PARALLEL OF KAFKA'S LYRICS AND FRENCH EXISTENTIALISM  Cover Image

SÉMANTICKÉ PARALELY TEXTOV FRANZA KAFKU AFRANCÚZSKEHO EXISTENCIALIZMU
SEMANTIC PARALLEL OF KAFKA'S LYRICS AND FRENCH EXISTENTIALISM

Author(s): Marcel Forgáč
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Summary/Abstract: Kafka's specific "approach" to human being problem causes his work is often compared to existentialism philosophy. The most significant parallel between Kafka's and philosphy-literary initiative of French existentialists we can see in the specific transformation of human being as a  problem. both poetics the characters are autonomuous, individual personas who despite their rationality and character of self-reflection collide with general disconnectedness of the system around them. Kafka's geometer K., or Jozef K, Camus's Mersault, Sarter's Aantoine Rroquentin or Matheiou Delarue represent personas wrested out of social relations, reflecting their status of individuality without these relations, but at the same time they figure as personas who are not existentially determined by social and private relations. Iinsolvability, steadiness and stoutness of this conflict and final abalienatio of individual individuum is caused by his uniqueness.

  • Issue Year: 1/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 87-93
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovak