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FROM DEFEAT TO RESILIENCE: THE HUMAN COCKROACH IN WORLD LITERATURE AFTER KAFKA

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Arnds P.

World Literature Studies

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2023

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vol. 15

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issue 2

56 – 65

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Through a selection of literary texts featuring cockroaches in the wake of Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa in Metamorphosis (1915): Clarice Lispector’s A paixão segundo G.H. (1964; The Passion According to G.H., 1988), Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: The Half-Life of Gregor Samsa (2002), Scholastique Mukasonga’s Inyenzi ou les Cafards (2006; Cockroaches, 2016), and Rawi Hage’s Cockroach (2008), this article shows how these authors politicize the cockroach as a bestia sacra between trauma and resilience. These literary works are exemplary in demonstrating how Anthropocene fiction resists and destabilizes bio-politically charged species metaphors with their dehumanizing agency. How do these authors, in writing beyond Kafka’s doomed human cockroach, liberate the species blattodae from its aura of dehumanization and draw on the resilience of this ancient species in the face of adversity and as a model for human agency?

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K interpretaci vybraných literárních děl Franza Kafky a Jeana-Paula Sartra

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Zábranský L.

Bohemistyka

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2012

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vol. 12

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issue 4

249-266

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In this essay the author focuses on the issue of space design in literary works and its diversity. The author interprets and compares particularly the motives found in the works of F. Kafka (Metamorphosis, The Trial) and J. P. Sartre (No Exit, The Wall) trying to capture the points of contact and fundamental differences. In the play No Exit the author explains not only the specific work with space, but also with the time dimension. During the interpretation the author essentially refers to the philosophical, psychological and anthropological relations.

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PRAGUE BEYOND KAFKA: RETHINKING MINOR LITERATURE THROUGH THE WORK OF JIŘÍ LANGER

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Sabatos C.

World Literature Studies

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2022

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vol. 14

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issue 2

85 - 102

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This article moves from their opposition of “major/minor” literatures to their “tetralinguistic” model of vernacular, vehicular, referential, and mythic language taking Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature as a starting point. It presents the work of the polyglot poet and Hasidic scholar Jiří Langer to offer a multifaceted view of three distinct contexts: the theoretical discourse of minor literature, the literary milieu of interwar Prague, and the history of gay Czech and Jewish writing. Langer appears in Franz Kafka’s diaries and letters over a period of several years as a source of information on Jewish culture, as well as a personal contact to prominent rabbis from the east. Two decades later, Langer produced his own remarkable work in Czech, Devĕt bran (Nine Gates, 1937), a popular-scholarly study of Hasidic traditions based on his experience in the Galician town of Belz. Much of what is known today about Jiří Langer’s unconventional life comes from the memoirs of his brother František, published as a foreword for the English translation of the book. However, it was only in recent years that Langer’s Hebrew poetry has also become available to English-speaking readers, revealing his linguistic strategies that draw on mystical traditions in the attempt to form a modern synthesis of Jewish homosexual identity. Jiří Langer’s literary activity shows Prague as a site of self-definition through multilingualism, rather than the more familiar image of Kafka’s “deterritorialization”.

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FROM DEFEAT TO RESILIENCE: THE HUMAN COCKROACH IN WORLD LITERATURE AFTER KAFKA

K interpretaci vybraných literárních děl Franza Kafky a Jeana-Paula Sartra

PRAGUE BEYOND KAFKA: RETHINKING MINOR LITERATURE THROUGH THE WORK OF JIŘÍ LANGER