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La solitude entre culpabilité et destin : le cas Kafka
Loneliness Between Guilt and Destiny: the Kafka Case

Author(s): Massimo Carloni
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: law; fasting; Job; Flaubert; work; sense of guilt; animal; burrow; marriage; skepticism; court; judgement; illness; Canaan; death

Summary/Abstract: Kafka created loneliness, on one hand, to support the need of his work and, on the other hand, as an exclusion of the rule of Law. As such loneliness is a troubled and ambivalent existential phenomenon lived at times as sheltering and threatening, as a salvation and a damnation. It’s a destiny, for which Kafka feels hopelessly guilty.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 83-98
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French