Kafka: visionario del totalitarismo

• Authors: Espejo Miguel

Title variants

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Kafka: visionary of totalitarianism

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

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The article takes up the title that Milan Kundera used for his essay published in Mexico in 1980, after giving his lecture on Kafka. This article also underlines how some aspects of Kafka’s rich work continue to perfectly translate the image of that totalitarian world. Despite the collapse of the Soviet empire, this tendency refuses to leave the scene of our time. In Latin America, adherence to this trend continues to manifest itself in various countries. However, Kafka’s influence on Spanish-American literature is truly unquantifiable. The case of José Revueltas, with his brilliant novel Los días terrenales (1949), illustrates in a “Kafkaesque” way the meanders of the so-called socialist Revolution. For his part, the unavoidable Borges contributed a lot, since the 1930s, to make known, according to his terms, “another way of conceiving literature”, where Kafka has occupied a central place,

Keywords

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Milan Kundera; The lyrical illusion; José Revueltas; totalitarian tendencies; Jorge Luis Borges

• 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: 145-156

Contributors

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Espejo Miguel