The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.11589132.7" target="_blank" >10.2307/jj.11589132.7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations
Original language description
A medievalist text drawing on Parzival, Franz Kafka’s The Castle is a Bildungsroman set in purgatory (Winkleman, 1972) which has several adaptations into graphic format. However, The Castle presents some of the stickiest challenges for illustrators to depict the titular edifice, which appears in the text through the vocabulary of mood or atmosphere. Embedded in the Muirs’s choice to translate das Schloß as a more medievalist ‘castle’ rather than a ‘chateau,’ as it is Czech (zámek), the effort to make the amorphous concrete on the page causes the medievalist simulacra of the castle to bleed into other visual medievalisms, nudging the text ever closer to an absurdist grail quest. This paper looks at this issue of multimodal translation through the lens of the transcultural borrowing of medievalist simulacra. This borrowing takes place in the conversation between Czech and American illustrators Robert Crumb (1993), Kája Saudek (1967) and Jaromír Švejdík (2013) in their adaptations of the short story over several decades.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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