The Issue of Repetitiveness in Kafka

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378068%3A_____%2F24%3A00602022" target="_blank" >RIV/68378068:_____/24:00602022 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/en/2024-1-3/" target="_blank" >https://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/en/2024-1-3/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366729.2024.1.3" target="_blank" >10.14712/23366729.2024.1.3</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Issue of Repetitiveness in Kafka

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper inquires into the phenomenon of repetition in the works of Franz Kafka and in what ways it might characterize his way of writing (and his understanding of writing). I begin by making a distinction between three different planes of repetition, or repetitiveness: (1) as a ‘method’ of production, (2) as a symptom of the characters’ situations, and (3) as a representation technique. First, there are different versions of the same text, equivalent in terms of finality, but perhaps also a certain existential rhythm (as exemplified by Kafka’s famous ‘schedules’). I suggest that a comparative reading of Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1810) could provide an insight into this feature of ‘productivity’. Second, repetitive characters’ situations create certain patterns and beg the question of their complex reader effects. Finally, and in addition to ‘classical’ discursive repetitions, there are minor textual recurrences (as in his ‘breakthrough’ story, “The Judgment”) and the question whether these can be related to an analogy in technical reproduction. Are they part of an experimental narrative method? Is there a ‘sense’ to repetition in Kafka and can these provisional distinctions help us understand it? How should their entanglement be described?

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Issue of Repetitiveness in Kafka

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper inquires into the phenomenon of repetition in the works of Franz Kafka and in what ways it might characterize his way of writing (and his understanding of writing). I begin by making a distinction between three different planes of repetition, or repetitiveness: (1) as a ‘method’ of production, (2) as a symptom of the characters’ situations, and (3) as a representation technique. First, there are different versions of the same text, equivalent in terms of finality, but perhaps also a certain existential rhythm (as exemplified by Kafka’s famous ‘schedules’). I suggest that a comparative reading of Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1810) could provide an insight into this feature of ‘productivity’. Second, repetitive characters’ situations create certain patterns and beg the question of their complex reader effects. Finally, and in addition to ‘classical’ discursive repetitions, there are minor textual recurrences (as in his ‘breakthrough’ story, “The Judgment”) and the question whether these can be related to an analogy in technical reproduction. Are they part of an experimental narrative method? Is there a ‘sense’ to repetition in Kafka and can these provisional distinctions help us understand it? How should their entanglement be described?

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Svět literatury

ISSN

0862-8440

e-ISSN

2336-6729

Svazek periodika

34

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

69

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

32-46

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85198957280