Apuntes sobre el rol de Franz Kafka en el pensamiento literario de Alejo Carpentier

• Authors: Kurz Andreas

Title variants

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Notes on Franz Kafka’s importance in Alejo Carpentier’s literary thinking

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

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This article reflects about the importance of Cheque writer Franz Kafka in the literary world of the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Kafka is an author cited and referred to frequently by Carpentier in his literary work (fiction and essay). Nevertheless, he it is not a traditional influence, but a model that boosted a slow transformation of Carpentiers “real marvelous” including the establishment of the marvelous as an atemporal cultural concept.

Keywords

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Alejo Carpentier; Franz Kafka; the marvelous; cultural constants

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 33
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 176-186

Contributors

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Kurz Andreas