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Franz Kafka, der Künstler (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch ; 433)
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November 16, 2016
"It was Kafka's misfortune that he could only imagine the curse of existence."
- pg 62
"And like a patient in the beginning of psychoanalytical treatment he doubted the material he himself had produced.
If we are correct in assuming that in "The Judgment" Kafka had intended to create a new myth of the father at a time when the image of the father had been thoroughly deflated by a generation of parricides and deicides, then he defeated his own purpose by commentaries and interpretations of this kind. They only prove that he himself was puzzled by what he had succeeded in creating during a few nocturnal hours of creative trance. Whether he sincerely attempted to solve the problems he had posed while writing "The Judgment" or whether he poked fun at the listeners who identified themselves all too easily with these products of his imagination, we are unable to decide today."
- pg 64
- pg 62
"And like a patient in the beginning of psychoanalytical treatment he doubted the material he himself had produced.
If we are correct in assuming that in "The Judgment" Kafka had intended to create a new myth of the father at a time when the image of the father had been thoroughly deflated by a generation of parricides and deicides, then he defeated his own purpose by commentaries and interpretations of this kind. They only prove that he himself was puzzled by what he had succeeded in creating during a few nocturnal hours of creative trance. Whether he sincerely attempted to solve the problems he had posed while writing "The Judgment" or whether he poked fun at the listeners who identified themselves all too easily with these products of his imagination, we are unable to decide today."
- pg 64
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