Kafka Unchained: Returns beyond Biofiction

• Authors: Wagner Benno
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Against the background of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death, the article explores a branch of author-as-character fiction that escapes the generic restraints of biography and biofiction: unchained writer fiction. Using Steven Soderbergh’s film Kafka (1991), filmmaker Gil Kofman’s novel debut aKa (2023), and Haruki Murakami’s global bestseller Kafka on the Shore (2002/2005) as a provisional sample, different modes of unchaining Kafka from the fetters of biography and biofiction are brought to light and contrasted against each other.

Keywords

EN

Author-as-character; biofiction; unchained writer fiction; narratology; intertextuality; canon

• 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: 2024
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 70
• Pages: 135-150

Contributors

author

Wagner Benno

• Universität Siegen