The Law and the Void: Hans Christian Andersen and Franz Kafka. Two Modern Parabolists
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Law and the Void: Hans Christian Andersen and Franz Kafka. Two Modern Parabolists
Original language description
Of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin aptly wrote: 'everything he describes makes statements about something other than itself'. Indeed, we are constantly challenged to decipher what Kafka's meticulous prose is pointing at, though the story itself works on its own premises. The inherent polysemy of 'Eine kaiserliche Botschaft' ('An Imperial Message') or 'Ein Hungerkunstler' ('A Hunger Artist') suggests, instead, the ancient parable tradition. But Kafka's modern parables diverge radically from the tradition. They obey a law, yet it is elusive, hence they are examples of the modern parable. In this article I take as my starting point Gila SafranNaveh's claim that Kafka is chronologically the first in the modern parable tradition. I assert that Hans Christian Andersen's much earlier fairytales 'Skyggen' ('The Shadow'), 'Ole Lukoie' and 'Hjertesorg' ('Heartache') can legitimately be interpreted as modern parables as well, because there is a striking structural similarity between them and the Kafka stories. In my article I focus on the parabolic character of Andersen's tales since - unlike in Kafka's stories - this topic has not yet been discussed by scholars exhaustively. Kafka's short stories serve merely as a benchmark of the modern parable. Generally, I suggest reading many of Andersen's stories as literature that sabotages the didactic parable.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scandinavica
ISSN
0036-5653
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
37
Pages from-to
31-67
UT code for WoS article
000474505400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070225599