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Kafka's K. Vs. the Castle: The Self & the Other

Kafka's K. Vs. the Castle: The Self & the Other

Hardcover

Series: Austrian Culture, Book 14

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0820425397
ISBN13: 9780820425399
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Apr 1 1996
Pages: 110
Language: English
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.

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