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On The Will World Of Kafka 's Novels

Posted on:2016-08-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330479991626Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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As the pioneer of the western modernist novels in the 20 th century. Kafka is creating aesthetic style presented by the groundbreaking, modernism and postmodernism of many schools can find their roots in Kafka here. In Kafka’s research, has always been a hot topic of academic circles, the intention of this article is to draw on the basis of predecessors’ research results, tried to break through the traditional Kafka study from religion, sociology, psychology, writer biography, such as common criticism mode, with Schopenhauer’s philosophy system as reference, from the perspective of philosophical ontology and pessimistic outlook on life will, the part of Kafka’s works are analyzed. To interpret the works of Franz Kafka characters in as the root cause of the pain experience, and often a nightmare its almost normalized to hidden behind of the deformation of the body. But two people holding similar pessimistic anthropology, and there are trace to be found the effects of Kafka by Schopenhauer, make to the understanding of the paper.Stated in the first part of the paper, the content is mainly involved with review of research on works of Franz Kafka, and from religion, psychoanalysis, the Angle of sociology, biographical Kafka, summarizes the research status of classification.The second part is mainly from the perspective of philosophy of Schopenhauer will analyze Kafka’s life experience, the world according to Schopenhauer’s will with Kafka’s novel will compare in the world. The former thinks the world of ontology is "I" will, but for Kafka, as the subject "I" will often be as the object of the intervention of "other" will gradually lost the subject position. The main body of the world and therefore the will of the "I" into "the other". On the basis of this, through the interpretation part of Kafka’s novels, the deformation of the normalized theme in their works and the characters tragic fate of the reason for the answer.The third part is based on a close reading of the text on the novel "the hunger artist" interpretation of a will. As the most basic form of life will, Kafka to "hunger" metaphor the root causes of pain in life, and with a veteran status, through the description of selfportrait type, searching for the possibility of redemption.The fourth part of the thesis will focus on the "in the penal colony" of interpretation. On the machine is actually a metaphor of the novel is a powerful "he will", and show the content of the article is he who will rule, the identity of the sentient beings with the situation. The last part is the full text of the summary.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kafka, Schopenhauer, will, the will of others
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