A life at the foot of a castle mountain. The life, truth and narration in Water Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka

• Authors: Lipszyc A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Subject to analysis is the theological vision ascribed by Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka, in particular, Benjamin's concept of a 'life at the foot of a castle mountain' and the messianic potential inscribed in such a life. To this end, the author discusses a number of categories, such as narration, parable, gesture, as well as distortion, recurrence and a 'life turned into the Scripture'. He identifies the Benjamin/Kafka theology as an extreme case of Gnosticism without a gnosis; his argument is that in his interpretation of Kafka, Benjamin played or trifled with the idea of salvation though a narrative.

Keywords

EN

BENJAMIN WALTER; GNOSTICISM WITHOUT GNOSIS; KAFKA FRANZ - THEOLOGICAL VISION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 5(107)
• Pages: 202-213
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lipszyc A.

• A.. Lipszyc, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03607312