Kaj Bernhard Genell

Kafka Kaj Bernhard Genell

"Kafka" is an analysis of Kafka´s novels and short stories The book deals in particular of the means contributing to the famous Kafka effekt, or - the kafkaesque. These means are found to be either technical, in that the author in this book tries to show how Kafka uses a split of consciousness, and moreover a split Unconscious, to - by a rare trick - create the Kafkaesque. The Kafkaesque itself also is found to create an interrogation. This interrogation is created by Kafka´s use of the unique device of the Kafkaesque together with handling the Freudian and the Symbolic and the Romantic school as myths, as undertexts. in his major works, that has helped to define Modern Man