Crossing the Kafka Network: Schulz, Blecher, Foer, and the Repositioning of the Human
Crossing the Kafka Network: Schulz, Blecher, Foer, and the Repositioning of the Human

Summary/Abstract: Major writers belonging to what Christian Moraru calls the “Kafka network” are, as the critic argues, behind watershed realignments and redistributions in the literary and conceptual makeup of modernity. Specifically, the critic proposes that these rearrangements have been part and parcel of aesthetic modernism’s transforming intervention in the structure of the modern onto-ecological imaginary – in how we see our humanity and its place in the “continuum” of human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic life. As Moraru shows, inside the domain in question, Schulz, Foer, and others like them reshuffle the pieces on the ontological chessboard into a new, eye-opening scenario and web of material life.

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