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In her article, "Agency and Political Engagement in Gide and Barrault's Post-war Theatrical Adaptation of Kafka's The Trial" Yevgenya Strakovsky considers the political themes of André Gide and ...Jean-Louis Barrault's Le Procès (The Trial, 1947), the first theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka's Der Prozess (The Trial, 1914). Strakovsky demonstrates that Le Procès, written and staged in the immediate aftermath of World War II, levels a critique against the passive complicity of citizens in unjust persecution in both its script and its staging. The paper also considers the elements of Kafka's prose that lend themselves to a socially engaged adaptation, and demonstrates that the Gide-Barrault production perpetuates a call to action that is present in Kafka's novel formally and thematically. Strakovsky concludes by suggesting that political adaptations of Kafka's The Trial provide a vital discursive space to examine the nature of, and need for, postmodern agency.
This dissertation examines the figure of the hand in Kafka’s literary, professional and personal writings and ties that figure to the contemporary contexts of (1) industrial labor, (2) the ...statistical, depersonalized perspective on the subject and its body in the modern social and insurance state, and (3) the exacerbation of these conditions during World War One. I show that hands occur in Kafka’s oeuvre wherever the subject’s identity, agency, and physical integrity is under negotiation. The first chapter analyzes Kafka’s novel Der Verschollene. It links the figure of the hand with the contexts of manual labor and industrial work practices, especially Taylorism, and shows that hands emerge when there is a tension between the worker viewed as an individual and the worker as part of the larger machinery of production. The second chapter describes Kafka’s professional background and his responsibilities at the Bohemian Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute, thereby providing the biographical context for Kafka’s use of the hand trope. It traces the origins of social accident insurance and its inherent tension between two opposing views on the subject—the subject as impersonal part of a collective versus the subject as an individual. The chapter then provides a close reading of one of Kafka’s office writings, an illustrated report about how to prevent work accidents and in particular hand injuries. This text reveals that, even in the professional context, Kafka uses the hand as a metonymy of the threatened body, both of the worker and of its administrator. The third chapter examines the novel Der Proceß as an illustration of the abstract and anonymous worldview dominant in the insurance state, which threatens not only the blue-collar worker but also the white collar employee. Hands appear as random and arbitrary signs of an incomprehensible court system and are at the same time used by the protagonist to establish connections to the court and “grasp” his situation. In addition, the hand represents the writing and creating hand; by connecting the dimension of writing with the figure of the hand as primary political trope in Der Proceß, Kafka shows that the private and public are inseparable. The fourth chapter shows how the short but paradigmatic text “Meine zwei Hände begannen einen Kampf” draws together themes of blue-collar manual labor, white-collar responsibility and authorship by imagining a violent battle between the narrator’s left and right hand, a display of violence that should be read in the context of World War One. In his position at the insurance institute, Kafka was responsible for wounded veterans and traces of his work with amputations and prosthetics show clearly in his later texts. The dissertation will conclude with a brief analysis of “Ein Bericht Für eine Akademie” to show that the hand is the quintessentially human body part that encapsulates the violence and crises that the modern subject has to undergo in order to be a member of (human) society.
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Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Zugl.: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 2006- München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 2007.23512- All metadata published by Europeana are ...available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Provider: Czech digital library/Česká digitální knihovna - Institution: Academy of Sciences Library/Knihovna Akademie věd ČR - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Před 50 lety, ve dnech 27.-28. ...května 1963, se v liblickém zámku konala konference o díle Franze Kafky. Šlo o význačnou událost, jež měla dosah nejen vědecký, nýbrž také kulturně-politický. Náběhy k pozitivnějšímu vnímání Kafkova díla zaznamenáváme již v druhé polovině 50. let, kdy vychází studie Ivana Dubského a Mojmíra Hrbka O Franzi Kafkovi (Nový život 1957, č. 4, s. 415-435). Rok nato se objevuje román Proces v překladu Pavla Eisnera a studie Pavla Reimana Společenská problematika v Kafkových románech (Nová mysl, č. 1, 1958, s. 52-63).- Roman Kanda.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, modernist writers followed modernity's wide-ranging and broadly-based transformation of space and took up spatiality as a subject to be reckoned with. ...As scholars such as Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin suggest, spatial maladies and discomfort are concepts that emerge with modernity and its re-organization of space. These notions are indicative of the reasoning that dominated the modern period, flooding human consciousness, as Georg Simmel memorably recounted, with the intensity of the inescapable urban experience. Hence, the experience of space becomes urbanized independently of where a person finds him or herself; the world becomes city-like, infusing all places with a metropolitan mind-set that re-structures its engagement with places and people. It is in this environment and time that Franz Kafka writes and creates his convoluted, resistant, and live spatial landscapes. In this project I choose to engage various parts of Franz Kafka's works, which includes "Die Verwandlung" and novellas like Der Proceß , Der Verschollene, Das Schloß, parts of Beschreibung eines Kampfes as well as Kafka's fragmentary novel Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande. These works of fiction tell us about the opaque legibility of modern urban settings through the eyes of Kafka's displaced characters. As the characters attempt to maneuver through their disorienting spaces their perspectives are frequently, but implicitly, called into question by the people they engage with. This dissertation will attempt to stress not only the physical spatial realms of the characters and their significance but it will also shift attention from the characters to the perceived existence of the characters' journeys. Further, this dissertation will underline the importance of the female role within the context of the paths taken by the male protagonists, highlighting the primary position that women hold not only for the spatial travelling of the male characters but also for the disrupted communicative channels between the characters.
Cette étude porte sur les symboles et environnements de justice chez Albert Camus et Franz Kafka, deux icônes littéraires qui se sont largement préoccupés à dénoncer les injustices qui ...caractérisaient le 20ème siècle, et qui rongent davantage la race humaine. Non seulement que Camus et Kafka représentent deux façons d’écrire et deux espaces littéraires, l’une de leurs idées maitresses est la justice. L’analyse de ce thème qui se juxtapose avec l’injustice présente son opération dans un univers plein de symboles. Afin donc de donner plus de clarté sur ce que Camus et Kafka pensent de la justice, et plus d’illustration sur le fondement et les principes pour la bonne pratique de la justice, cette thèse se propose d’exploiter et interpréter les signes et symboles de justice dans Les Justes, La Chute et L’Hôte de Camus, Le Procès, Le Verdict et La Colonie pénitentiaire de Kafka. Elle tient compte de l’environnement socio- culturel, économique, politique et physique de l’homme ; environnement dans lequel la pratique de la justice est devenue un leurre, malgré l’établissement des appareils judiciaires et la présence des institutions morales. A travers une analyse de leur idéologie absurde qui reflète à la fois la nature irrationnelle du monde et les valeurs, l’étude démontre comment Camus et Kafka dévoilent les injustices du sort et de l’humanité. Elle propose également une justice pour soi et pour tous, et non sans décrire l’environnement ou milieu de justice favorable. L’interprétation symbolique de la justice de leurs écrits révèle les éléments de la Nature (la terre, le soleil etc.) comme des actants principaux pour le fonctionnement et la bonne pratique de la justice. C’est d’ailleurs pourquoi leur déclaration sur la justice est profonde de significations. L’étude s’appuie sur la sémiotique de la littérature de Sanders Peirce d’objet, signes (symboles) et interprétations (significations) et la théorie écocritique de Cheryl Glofelty qui étudie la nature dans les textes littéraires. Par rapport à cette étude, les diversités de la création sont naturellement appelées à collaborer pour le triomphe de la justice. D’où l’appel à la pratique d’une justice guidée par une loi non écrite réglant silencieusement les activités de l’environnement physique de l’homme et influençant profondément la symbiose entre l’homme et la nature, c’est-à-dire l’observation prudente et symbolique des attitudes humaines, l’observation et l’écoute attentive de la voix de la nature avant, durant et après les interprétations de certains faits juridiques, humains et environnementaux. L’étude projette également la puissance de la fiction légale et crée une plateforme pour des recherches interdisciplinaires.
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