The Artistic Function Of The Detail Description Of Kafka's Novels

Franz Kafka,one of the most influential writers of the 20 th century,is an important founder of western modernist literature who creates a unique art world.His novels are definitely fantastic and authentic.Kafka's detailed description makes the fantasticality of the novel be credible.He combined fantasticality and authenticity in the creation,which sketching out a prospect that is fantastic in view but authentic in detail.Kafka constructed a fantastic world,meanwhile,he created an authentic world of alienation through real details.It made readers feel the absurdity of human existence.By sorting out the description of his novels' detail,combining narrative theory,acceptance aesthetics and Kafka's living experience,this paper makes an elaborate analysis of the details in Kafka's works.This paper mainly studies his detailed description from three aspects which are people's living conditions,the influence of time and space structure and the impact on the readers' reception.The paper consists of five parts:Introduction part is to make kafka's preliminary research results more clearly by reviewing selected topic background,research summary and the research approach.And by using predecessors' research for reference,the topic of this paper is decided which is focus on the artistic function of the detail description in Kafka's novels.The first chapter discusses the basic characteristics of the details of kafka's novels and his fantastic survival experience.Kafka is good at observing life details,especially the details of life.With these remarkable observation,he knew the modern real survival conditions,which can be summarized as the absurd of man's existence.And it runs through every aspects of living and working in kafka.The second chapter discusses the details description of the influence of time and space structure.Generally,Kafka's novel is according to the description of time sequence.However in fact,many details are used to describe characters' actions have encountered difficulties,which results in the stagnation of the story.At the same time,the novel uses detail to build a closed space,which allows the carefully designed space to be the background of the protagonist's life,and to represent the protagonist's survival dilemma.These make kafka novel present the characteristics of slow narrative rhythm.The third chapter discusses the effect of the details of kafka's novels in expressing the authenticity.The details of Kafka's novels is authenticity.This authenticity acts in two parts.One is kafka's description of all living beings,the other is for the exploration of people's inner world.The fourth chapter discusses the influence of the details of kafka's novels on readers' acceptance.The details of kafka's novels are ambiguous and defamiliarized,which make the meaning of the text uncertain.On the one hand,this kind of uncertainty is conducive to inviting readers to participate in reading,making readers resonate with the works.On the other hand,it also causes some confusion for readers to read.