A másik nyelv keresése. Franz Kafka: A kastély

Tamás Lénárt

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XIX. , Issue 2, 2024, page 3-12 , ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2024.19.2.3-12

Abstract:

This paper examines Franz Kafka’s fragmentary novel, The Castle, primarily from the point of view of language use and its anomalies. The starting point for the study is the view of language as formulated in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Kafka. Toward a Minor Literature, which sees language as secondary, alien and even dangerous, rather than as a primordial concept. Approaching the novel from this pers- pective, its narrative voice speaks a language that is analytical, experimental, yet ref- lective and unreliable, in short, foreign, which does not represent the fictional world but rather shapes it, while pointing out its own changes, dynamics and eventfulness. It is this idiosyncratic use of language that establishes the text’s strange, ‘uncanny’ atmosphere, its often ‘out-of-place’ characters and their interactions, and thus makes it one of the first substantial works of a defining trend in 20th century prose literature.

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