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On The Art Scheme Of Kafkaesque Novel

Posted on:2016-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y HaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330464951134Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Kafka was the grandmaster of Western Modernist Literature, who has an inestimable influence on future generations. However, the more people study Kafka, the more people cannot understand him. The more you cannot understand, the more you want to study seriously. In the creation, Kafka has polysemy, intractability and unsolvability and so on, which is like a maze and hard to think about. This enigmatic narrative means and writing skills have attracted a large audience. Under a straight, simple and plain language narrative style, Kafka includes a lot of information of the era. These unfathomable content contains a wealth of literary meaning and the times of referential function. Most importantly, Kafka wrote the immortal mythical in the history of literature with a unique "Kafkaesque". He once wrote to his friend Bob rhode and said what he wrote would become a reality, and the fact is also true. This selected topic was mainly from the experience of Kafka’s survival, basing on the text analysis, taking Kafka’s classic as typical examples, and cutting from three aspects——fantasticality, paradox and dream, discussing the dialectical unification relations between fantasticality and authenticity, paradox and logic and dream and sense in Kafkaesque in a more comprehensive way, and further exploring the internal mechanism of its aesthetic and sociological significance and value of Kafka creation.The first part analyzes the national identity and the literature status of Kafka. To read Kafka and his writings, we must have an accurate grasp to his national origin. On Kafka’s national identity, opinions vary. Kafka’s national identity is awkward, he does not like his Jewish origin, but the typical Jewish family background exerted a subtle influence on his character. The shadow of Jewish culture can be seen everywhere in Kafka’s works. There is no escape from his Jewish fate. Embarrassing national origin, complex social background, Parent-child conflict and sharp survival horror experience make Kafka form a unique view of literature. He established a unique position in the history of literature. Scholars domestic and oversea generally noted Kafka’s Jewish background, and called his artistic characteristics or writing style as "Kafkaesque", which has now become a proper noun.The second part combines Kafka’s fantastic survival experience, cutting from the dialectical relationship between fantasticality and authenticity, researching the fantasticality in Kafkaesque. Kafka’s fantastic plots were beyond our imagination, breaking our reading and thinking habit. Kafka skillfully combined fantasticality and authenticity in the creation, sketching out a "total fantastic, detail authentic " prospect. Fantasticality is a variation of the expression of the truth in Kafka, which is another concept both difference and connection to tradition. By comparing the two, we can better understand the literary phenomena of the 20 th century. This chapter takes "The Metamorphosis" as an example, using text analysis, seeking nuanced interpretation of Kafka’s novel of his "total fantastic, detail authentic" artistic pattern.The third part proceeds from the paradox of living experience of Kafka to research the paradoxical mode of thinking of Kafka. Paradox is like contradiction, which was an antinomies dilemma. Paradox is a philosophical term originally, which have a new connotation and extension in Kafka’s works. Paradox is both an artistic means and an aesthetic method in Kafka’s works.what’s more Paradox is a way of thinking and living attitude. Kafka’s life is full of contradictions, not only in family, career, marriage, but also in national origin and life background, all of which made him depressed, but nowhere to run. The paradox of living experience of Kafka is bound to be reflected in his works. Almost absurd logical thinking was throughout every work of Kafka. However, Kafka’s works were not lack of logic or have no logic, logic are presented among his paradox. This shows the greatness of Kafka in the literary creation. This chapter focuses on the text analysis of "A Hunger Artist", Further exploration the artistic pattern of "surface paradox, contains logic" in Kafka’s novels.The fourth part proceed from the dreamlike living experience of Kafka to research Kafka’s Visionary Art. Freud think the author’s literary creation is a "Daydream" and a refinement of lust. Through Kafka’s dreamlike living experience we can peep at kafka’s inner world and his creation mechanism. Kafka’s magic is that he can combine the dream and reason skillfully. He can present the reason in a dreamlike way, at the same time dream steps over the rational bound, and finally they become one. Kafka’s works were "The interwine of dream and reality " and he outlined a real, as well as unreal world. By describing his dreamlike huge inner world, Kafka deeped into the field of the human subconscious, making mankind see their true situation. "Country doctor" is the best works to use the illusion method of Kafka. This chapter takes this as an example to reseach the artistic pattern of "dream contains rational" in Kafka’s novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kafka, Kafkaesque, fantasticality, paradox, dream
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