On The Autobiography Of Kafka's Creation And Characteristics Of Transcendence

Kafka who was respected as the ancestor of the West Modern literature showed his own life and soul by a special living style. In his eyes, life is writing and writing is also life. A new and astonishing world was constructed by his writings. Although he said that writing was absolutly the need of expressing his mind, in some degree, the worlds in his mind and out are the same. Although his mind life was liking dreaming , there is no need of searching for it in reality , because his life itself was like dreaming ,too. So autobiography was the most important character of his writings. Kafka's writings were stamped by living , such as family, marrige and career. So, understanding his life is the key to understand his writings. Kafka's writings showed his attitude toward the world. He recovered his world view by art , but it was not intact reality and not a fantasy of Eutopia. Kafka didn't want to give a meaning of the world, so didn't change; by constrast, he gave some clues of the world's drawbacks and summon on people surpassing it. It is the summon and surpass that another very important character of Kafka's writings.This paper can be divided into three parts, which made some thinkings and surpassing respectively. The godlike father in Kafka's writings is no doubt the reflection of the relationship between father and son in reality. Father as a mirror also help Kafka look into the life. Chapter Two gave some research about Kafka's writings about law. We could see this influence on his career and life in one hand, in the other hand, Kafka was able to explain the law in the outsider's angle of view which had some direct relations with the living of Kafka. Chapter Three tried to explain the reasons and meanings of Kafka's opening writings in the form and why the novels had no ends.