Readings of Kafka, a century later

Gustavo  Giovannini; Francisco  Salaris; Juan Valentín  Brito; Hebe  Castaño; Fernando  Castro Flórez; Jorge  Bracamonte; Marcelo G.  Burello; Annalisa  Farina; Mariela  Ferrari; Flavio  Krüger; Francisco  Martínez; Adriana  Massa; Gabriel  Pascansky; Ariadna  Quiroga; Atilio  Rubino; Ricardo  Sanmartín Arce; Facundo  Saxe

Readings of Kafka, a century later

Authors

Gustavo Giovannini (ed)

Francisco Salaris (ed)

Keywords:

literary criticism, Kafka

Synopsis

In his Diaries, Kafka refers to the “impossible abundance” of his own work as a way of pointing out the infinite bifurcations it offers. Chaotic and fleeting lines intertwine in the map of an unclassifiable author who today reaffirms his significance more than ever. Whether from Canetti's experiential approach, through the contributions of Hannah Arendt—who, through a “Kafkaesque poetic reason,” finds the hint of creative spontaneity at its highest expression—to the Deleuzian reading where literature becomes a power conceived in its own language to make it implode, Kafka's texts elude the interpretive power of the moment and move toward a realm free of intentions.

Chapters

Foreword

Gustavo Giovannini

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Section I: Formal and thematic aspects of Kafka's work Kafka
“What we call the path is hesitation.” On the notion of the path in Kafka's “aphorisms”

Juan Valentín Brito

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The artist and his art in the literary world of Franz Kafka

Hebe Castaño

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Art expelled from paradise. [Notes on Franz Kafka: disturbing transformations and family correspondence]

Fernando Castro Flórez

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Kafka, literature as Kabbalah

Francisco Salaris

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Section II: Kafka and other authors. Comparative studies
Historical absurdity and language games in the face of the sinister. Kafka in Argentine writings

Jorge Bracamonte

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Kafka, Melville, and Uninhabiting

Marcelo G. Burello

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The awareness of absurdity and the rupture of time as symptoms of existential failure in the works of Kafka and Buzzati

Annalisa Farina

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The enigmas of art: crime, guilt, justice, and artistic objectification of condemnation in Franz Kafka and Leo Perutz

Mariela Ferrari

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Killing writing: the scruple of perfection in Kafka in light of Bernardo Soares' reflections

Flavio Krüger

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Tragicomedy of profound helplessness: a comparative reading of El fondo del vaso (The Bottom of the Glass) by Francisco Ayala and The Trial by Franz Kafka

Francisco Martínez

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Kafka and Dickens. Some Notes

Adriana Massa

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Report on Educated Apes. E.T.A. Hoffmann and Franz Kafka

Gabriel Pascansky

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Digging an escape route from the modern world. Animality and foreignness in Franz Kafka and Nacha Vollenweider

Ariadna Quiroga, Atilio Rubino

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From Job to Kafka. A comparison between eras

Ricardo Sanmartín Arce

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Preciado-Kafka: from “Report to an Academy” to I Am the Monster Who Speaks to You

Facundo Saxe

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