DER ZWEIFEL AN DER METAPHER. BETRACHTUNGEN ZU FRANZ KAFKAS STIL

• Authors: Laura-Elena Mihăileasa

Title variants

EN

DISTRUSTING THE METAPHOR. REFLECTIONS ON FRANZ KAFKA’S STYLE

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

In the article “The Rejection of the Metaphor. Thoughts on the Kafkian Style” we argue that the simplicity of the Praguean writer’s style and the purposeful avoidance of metaphor are based on the conviction that reality is one, indivisible and uninterpretable, and that literature should express this reality. For Kafka, metaphor is not a way to reveal the essence of reality, but a trap that alienates the writer from the essence of things. By trying to find the limits of the correspondence between literature and reality and attempting to reach the utopia of the total correspondence between word and world, Kafka builds his own style, one characterized by great simplicity, clearness and concreteness, where metaphor is used parsimoniously.

Keywords

EN

style; metaphor; correspondence between words and reality; concreteness

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 51-62

Contributors

author

Laura-Elena Mihăileasa

• Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania