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Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer. Kafka's major works include The Metamorphosis (1915), In the Penal Colony (1919), The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), Amerika (1927).
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Umberto Eco on Kafka - Dictionary of Arguments

I 37
Kafka/Eco: trial, castle, expectation, condemnation, illness, transformation and torture are not situations that should be understood in their immediate literal meaning.
But unlike the allegorical constructions of the Middle Ages, however, the resonating meanings here are not unambiguously pre-determined, are not guaranteed by any encyclopaedia and are not based on any order of the world.
>Allegory
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The various existentialist, theological and psychoanalytic interpretations of Kafka's symbols cannot exhaust the possibilities of the work at all.
>Psychoanalysis, >Theology, >Existentialism, >Symbols,
>Interpretation,
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It remains inexhaustible and open precisely because of this ambiguity, that is, because a world based on ambiguity has taken the place of a world structured according to general laws.
>Ambiguity, >Literature, >Art.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Eco I
U. Eco
Opera aperta, Milano 1962, 1967
German Edition:
Das offene Kunstwerk Frankfurt/M. 1977

Eco II
U, Eco
La struttura assente, Milano 1968
German Edition:
Einführung in die Semiotik München 1972


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