Kafka's K. versus the castle
Subtitle: the self and the other
By: Karoline Krauss.
Series: Austrian culture,; v. 14
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Description: Kafka's last novel is preoccupied with an elusive authority named "the Castle". By insisting on entering the Castle, the protagonist K. inadvertently deconstructs its very presence: K. discovers that the Castle only exists as a rhetorical paradigm in the language of the village. This experience is the basis for K.'s existential maturation. Instead of striving to find meaning in a transcendent authority, K. gradually becomes responsible for his own subjective identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-102).