Franz Kafka und der Kanon. Werkkonstitution als Konstruktion aus Theater, Text und Zeichnung. Grundriss einer Forschungsfrage
Franz Kafka and the canon. Work constitution as a construction of theatre, text and drawing. Outline of a research question

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on an aspect that has thus far rather been ignored by scholarly discussions on Franz Kafka: in frequently putting emphasis on a unique ‘small literature’, invoking partly Kafka’s own remarks, partly those of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1975), Kafka’s relationship to the ‘grand literatures’ has often been neglected or even completely overlooked. Yet, how does Kafka’s work relate to the canon? The paper provides an outline of this research question and seeks initial answers to it by exploring residues of the literary and creative canon that are referred to in the works themselves and that range from Greek antiquity to Weimar Classicism and beyond. Based on internal traces and obscured layers of such a connection with the canon, the constitution of Kaka’s works proves to be a construction of theatre, text and drawing.

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