Importance Of Kafka In Literature And Influences

Importance of Kafka in literature and influences

Summary

Metamorphosis is a work that tells us the story of Gregorio Samsa, a man who has an arduous job to keep his family, making it impossible to continue in his work when he woke up a day turned into a “bug” (described by the Czech). Lending for different interpretations taking into account Kafka’s way of writing

Through the discussion raised in interactive oral activity, and therefore start from an idea of a general thought and development, it was thrown that a key factor in understanding the work of metamorphosis is to know the author’s life and take into account all theAreas that affect your life, this is how it is obtained that the first 20 years of the twentieth century were total chaos throughout Europe, there are wars, hunger and technological evolutions, which contract new currents of thought;Kafka’s life was afflicted by the figure of power that his father represented on a day -to -day"Letter to the father", paternal approval.

All these facts ended up influencing and creating the very particular idiosyncrasy of this great writer Franz Kafka;And it is that the circumstances described affected his work "Die Verwandlung" or as his translation dictates (to some extent right) "Metamorphosis". The points mentioned and observed in Kafka’s life can be visualized reflected in Gregorio Samsa, who, when transformed into a “bug” and the impossibility that this entails, can represent all insecurities, fears, social repression or lack of acceptance, dehumanizationof society, existentialism, even manifest Marxist interpretations (with the alienation of workers with respect to the 2nd Industrial Revolution and the capitalist system that this meant in the twentieth century).

Exegesis that only allow the incredible Kafkian works, and causes for which this is one of the most important authors of the twentieth century, later influencing incredible authors such as Borges, García Márquez and Camus.

Introduction

Since ancient times, the human has found a way to make tools and various methods of which they help survival, then we have dedicated ourselves to the search for knowledge, such knowledge has endured until today because it is reflected in thewriting. Many of these texts are influenced by the context and the environment that are lived in a particular location, this can sometimes change someone’s personality and therefore the way it is expressed, Franz Kafka was an Austro -Hungarian writer ofearly twentieth century, is considered one of the pioneers in realistic literature, existentialism and in the philosophy of the absurd, also standing out in other aspects such as bureaucracy and spiritual transformations. Influenting in the future great (Márquez, 2015)All my readings were oriented in that sense that it was in the contemporary novel ”;In this work I will study how Kafka’s social and natural context affects the work of his metamorphosis.

Developing

When Kafka was in the work of writing this wonderful novel of "Metamorphosis" it was seen in the task of having dealing with the day to day, various news and comments of all the people to each place to which to go, and it was that it wasIn an era where World War I was beginning, it becomes impossible to go unnoticed this fact, generating a lotThat you have in mind ends by promoting a totally hostile and somewhat unpleasant environment even in your own home, this mental chaos directly ends by influencing any author in the background of their creations, which perhaps also changes the author’s perspective in a wayIn some areas, a fact that also concludes by capturing paper.

Another important aspect to highlight on the scope of the historical context is that during this period of time the 2nd Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) was ending, and it is necessary to highlight this point, since during and after this temporary period due to theAmount of innovation and new machinery ready to be used, an increase in exploitation supplied to people was obtained as a result, also having too low remuneration, this is due to the fact that at that stage all the great accumulation for available works was translated intoThe technological artifacts of the new industry, where only the already appointed very poorly paid works were, it should be noted that in case it was little, in this type of production the women were not allowed to exercise, a fact that ends up standing out of a certainform within Kafka’s novel. The contrast of the characteristics of the Czech environment allows us to understand how its identifiable personality is defined in its writings, its so monotonous and meaningless way in its manuscripts.

It was precisely the special and particular way in which the Austrian wrote, which ended up assigning a name to this form of expression, winning Kafkian term, this is described in the first stay for (Borges, 1952) in his essay “Kafka andits precursors "saying the following" in each of those texts is Kafka’s idiosyncrasy, in a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had not written, we would not perceive it;In other words, it would not exist ”, where it is possible to understand that the attributed sense of Borges is that Kafka follows a logical argument that tends to failure, leading his characters to meaningless situations, as can be seen in the" metamorphosis ", since at the time of Samsa to observe in what his body became, the only thing that worried him was the one who could not reach his work early. (Bloom, 2005) also attributes his perspective about the Czech in his critic book to various authors “was an eremita, a man of introspection to which life was scared … He saw the world full of invisible demons that assault and destroy manhelpless … all his works describe the terror of mysterious mistakes and guilt without guilt in human beings ”, where through their story and analysis of certain fragments of works of Praguense, Kafka has to understand us aboutLife and meaning that assigns him, so he concludes that we are the creation of a God who was in a bad mood that day, arising his well -known phrase "we are nihilistic thoughts who came to the head of God".

(Borges Jorge, 1988) “1883, 1924. Those two dates delimit Franz Kafka’s life. No one can ignore that they include famous events: the first European war, the invasion of Belgium, defeats and victories, the blockade of the central empires by the British fleet, the years of hunger, the Russian revolution, which was at first a generousEsperanza and is now Tsarism, the collapse, the Brest-Litovsk treaty and the Versailles treaty, which would engender the Second War. It also includes the intimate facts recorded by Max Brod’s biography: the disagreement with the father, loneliness, legal studies, the schedules of an office, the profusion of manuscripts, tuberculosis. Also, the vast baroque adventures of literature: German expressionism, the verbal feats of Johannes Becher, Yeats and James Joyce.

Kafka’s fate was to transmute the circumstances and agonies in fables. I wrote sordid nightmares in a limpid style. Not in vain he was reader of the Scriptures and devotee of Flaubert, Goethe and Swift. He was Jewish, but the Jewish word does not appear, which I remember, in his work. This is timeless and perhaps eternal.

Kafka is the great classic writer of our tormented and strange century."

Through this writing, the way Borges perceived Kafka’s. And it is that the fact that Samsase becomes an insect, is the act of how a person can feel for the treatment of society towards it, the dehumanization of people at work, seeing them as simple numbers or "bugs" ofwhich to take advantage, the commodification of the world converges that man loses his human condition, which each person leads to feeling strange and without understanding, allowing to be aware of the loneliness to which he belongs (for the same reason thatIt’s a bug).

conclusion

To end this work, during the beginning of the 20th century there were a lot of factors in the environment of this author, such as the beginnings of World War I, the fall of Tsar Nicolas II leading the Russian revolution, end of the 2nd Industrial RevolutionThat he brought with him labor exploitation with very low remuneration, also influenced personal circumstances, evidencing this in his book "Letter to the father and other writings", where he shows the reason for his insecurities due to the lack of approval of his father, seeing him as aFigure of power, and detailing himself as a weak being, the loneliness that lived, his illness, and all the kind of literature in which he submerged him. All these aspects affect at the time of writing;In the case of Kafka and his stories, providing her with Kafkian elements and giving coherence to the absurd, capturing texts that describe the general feeling that raised his position for living in this time of time.

Being therefore that the transformation into a "bug" by Samsa, is nothing more than the general feeling of how its author Kafka lives, in a commercialized world that consequently assigns a value to everything, creating alienated workers . (Garcia, 2013) “Metamorphosis could be considered a metaphor of destiny that Kafka held alienated workers;Becoming dehumanized animals ”, dehumanized people who do not feel understood in their solitude, can also be interpreted according to (Nabokov, S.F.) . "The Samsa family around the fantastic insect is nothing other than mediocrity around the genius", of which it can be abstracted that not only the ingenuity and intelligence of a person is what leads to the relationship between said individual with society with societyIn general, it is impossible; noobstant, tries to refer to someone with very different qualities is also treated different.