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Kafka: Modernist, Expressionist, Satirist, and Dark Existentialist
Kafka: Modernist, Expressionist, Satirist, and Dark Existentialist
Political:
• Disillusioned with politics/Big Government
• Disdain for public officials
• This theme, the ambiguity of a task's value and the horror of devotion to it
Kafka-In a nutshell (just for micheal
bonni)
• Existentialism has had ramifications in various
areas of contemporary culture. In literature,
Franz Kafka, author of haunting novels, walking
in Kierkegaard’s footsteps, described human
existence as the quest for a stable, secure, and
radiant reality that continually eludes it (Das
Schloss [1926; The Castle, 1930]); or he
described it as threatened by a guilty verdict
about which...