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Kafka National Identity Crisis

Posted on:2013-09-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330395480071Subject:World Literature and Comparative Literature
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Kafka can be we recognized, thanks to his lifelong best friend, Max BoluoDe, he disobeyed Kafka’s wills to save his words for us to show a completeworld of Kafka. In Boluo De eyes that Kafka is a "saint" can be a human tutor,for Kafka’s identity, Boluo De said: Kafka is a native Jews, and all his creationshould belong to Jewish literature, Kafka works in the figures, and complexelements are inextricably linked with the Jewish. In the eyes of other scholars,however, Kafka’s identity is not so simple, we can see a model of German Kafkaas a German writer in the history of German literature; in Czech literature,Kafka Czechs, Czech writer; in Jewish literature, Kafka also because theirJewish ancestry to become a Jewish writer, then Kafka for his complex identityproblem exists, how to look at the study Kafka identity should first solve thedoubt. But Kafka has not answered this question. First, as a Jew Kafka, theJewish people, he does not agree, but Kafka grew up in a Jewish environmentand can not stay away from, that find an identity for their own nation, which makes out Kafka personal problems, the development of national identity crisisto a personal identity crisis of his life Kafka in efforts to get rid of him there is acrisis, the same, the end of his life Kafka did not find the exact solution.Discussed in this paper is Kafka’s identity crisis and its performance in theliterature.First the article will introduce Kafka’s Jewish identity and familybackground, understanding of Kafka’s Jewish background, the second part willdescribe the Kafka in the eyes of the Jewish nation. In Kafka opinion, the Jewishpeople "rat-like indifference, the humble stranger who pander to Jews privilegedbeggars and terrible catastrophic future. From Kafka himself in terms of hisJewish identity has serious deficiencies: Native German Jews, be unable toreturn and can not stay away from national paradox, and laid hold of the Jewishpeople a sense of crisis brought by the shelter. In this section, by the lack ofKafka in the eyes of the Jewish nation and Kafka Jewish identity, specificallyaddressed causes of Kafka’s national identity crisis.After the cause of the problem clarifies the Kafka national identity, the paper will further explore the impact of ethnic identity to Kafka, Kafka’s Jewishnational identity crisis as he brought his personal capacity identity crisis, thispersonal identity crisis gave Kafka brought the existence of life of uncertaintyand self-attribution of his life looking for, and ultimately Kafka to his identitycrisis, there is uncertainty and for self-attributable to the search completelydisplayed in his literary works, which is the father of modernist Kafka moderntheme root causes-"Find in Kafka’s works, everywhere we can look for to see"self-Find the shadow of the uncertainty of survival, Kafka is the most hotmodern characteristics, absurdity and alienation also stems from this.To sum up, modernism master Kafka on their own national identity crisishas brought his personal crisis of survival, this personal crisis of survival so thathis existence full of uncertainty, in order to get out of this crisis, Kraft carddevoted his life to find a place to return to find themselves, which is the rootcauses of the modern theme in Kafka’s works, that is the absurdity of the worldand alienation of life identity crisis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Franz Kafka, the Jewish national identity, personal crisis, uncertainty
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