On The Paradox Of The Kafka Ideological Creation

Kafka is one of the representatives of expressionism, paradox is the center of his thinking, and is employed in his creation explicitly and implicitly here and there, which developes Kafkaesque literature works. Paradox contains the meanings such as antinomy, inversion, pretending falsehood and speciosity, etc. American contemporary critic Crias Brukes thinks paradox is a way of expression, which seems apparently contradictory while inwardly contains truth factors, and enables us to look at a certain situation in an overall perspective. Such paradox is represented as a kind of glide from two opposite extremes, in which he looks at the presently opposite things in a changeable vision,so the two logically paradoxical opposite can exist harmoniously in artical world. Through the study of Kafkaesque paradox, we can better know about his artistic characteristics in his creative writing.This essay consists of three parts.The first part analyzes the reason of the formation of Kafka's paradoxical thinking. Kafka was born in the turbulent late 19th century Europe, his father Herman Kafka was a Jewish businessman with some achievements in Prague, his influence on Kafka was a lifelong one. The father's education on his son was completely negative, he was used to make orders and required an absolutely abeyance. Kafka's initial revolt was at once announced as a total failure because of the great disparity in terms of constitution and energy, and he consequently developed an unconquerable sense of dread toward his father, obeyed his father's arrangements without any conditions in order not to stir any conflicts. This dread was re-enhanced continuously in his later ages, transformed into a belief of"every impediment could destroy me", this belief made him subconsciously elude of every paradoxical factors which may engender conflicts, affirming one side while not denying the other side; made a conclusion and overturned it immediately. During his university studies, he got more touches on philosophy and literature, such deafening cries as Nietzsche's"re-estimation on values"and"God is already dead"aroused some oppressed factors hidden in Kafka, made him review of tradition and reality, and he started to exhibit the absurdity and disharmony in it in his writings, Nietzsche's philosophy became the causation of the formation of his paradoxical thinking. After World WarⅠ, the fever in oriental culture coming up in German cultural circle gave Kafka a chance to get to Laozhuang philosophy, whose plain materialistic dialectics directly accelerated the maturation of Kafka's paradoxical thinking.The second part discusses about the representations of Kafka's paradoxical thinking in his works. Kafka believed in Judaism under his father's guidance. The impious attitudes of his father aroused his question about Judaism, and it was Christianity that influenced young Kafka more, but when he was in his late years, Kafka came back to believe in Judaism again, this change resulted in his duplex view of original sin, further made him believe in paradoxical view of death, receiving death as the form of release from sin in Christianity perspective, looking forward to death on the one hand, while full of dread and disillusion towards death, looking at death as the final form of punishment from Judaism perspective on the other hand. Kafka held a paradoxical attitude toward religious belief, making deconstruction about the belief and reconstruction of it at the same time. Kafka took to the work relating to the law whole of his life, excepting for it,abstract and pythonic"principle"appeared often in his works. Kafka also explained in paradoxical thinking for"principle", affirming the existence and justification of principle and illuding the concept of principle, endowing it with an absurd characteristic.The third part introduces the influence of paradoxical thinking on Kafka's Writing style. Kafka made ingredient of the realisticality of details and overall absurdity together, through such eerie tact as deformation and the separation of spirit and body, pelt off truth from the feint in real daily life, and using false arrangement to constitute contrary entities in order to arouse people's attention on dissimilation. Paradox constituted the unanswerable circulation pattern in Kafka's works, he set paradoxical situation and didn't give clear solution, the opposite constituting factors in confront---conflicts couldn't fuse and dissolve themselves, therefore, there was always a feeling of unwillingness to stop in the end of the works. Kafka put the plot in an eternal movement, the so-called ending was only a temporary terminal, otherwise, it will end in the complete disappearance of one side between the two opposite sides, so as to get a solution of the problem in another form. The inexplainability and uncertainty of paradox rendered a huge amount of vacancies in the texts,and produced the ambiguity of the theme and multimeanings of the texts. What's more, the writer used lots of rhetoric, like metaphor and symbol.