2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Now, my evening is filled with romantic melancholy, with notes of temperature and a sore throat, a cup of tea, hot and with a pleasant aroma gives additional strength, and a scarf, presented by one dear to me, hugs my neck so softly, giving full comfort and a feeling of tenderness that we invested in this gift.
Let's remember together how one of Kafka's most famous works begins:
“Someone apparently slandered Joseph K. because, without doing anything wrong, he was arrested.”
This is how the Trial begins - one of the most famous novels by Franz Kafka.
K. - the main character, for no reason, no reason, was arrested and forced to go through an intricate process. Where neither the reason for the arrest, nor the essence of the trial is clear to him.
Throughout the novel, its main character, Joseph K., tries to free himself from the court, to prove to everyone and everything that he is innocent. However, all his attempts are in vain, for his trial is not being conducted by an ordinary civil court. Joseph K. has an inner judgment on himself.
A similar plot is considered characteristic of Kafka's work. Scientists have proposed a new definition for this style - the term Kafkian.
The term "Kafkaesque" has been adopted to describe overly complicated and confusing situations, especially when it comes to bureaucratic delays. But do the long queues that have to stand in order to fill out the many incomprehensible documents reflect the term "Kafkaesian" in full measure? What does Kafkian mean besides the usual usage?
Franz Kafka's writings do tell the story of the everyday absurdity of modern life, in a bureaucratic manner, which the author personally encountered when he worked as an insurance agent in the early twentieth century in Prague. Many of his heroes are office workers forced to fight their way through a web of obstacles to reach their goals. Often, all of their trials are so disorienting and illogical that success doesn't matter anymore.
For example, in the story Poseidon - the ancient Greek god was so busy with clerical work that he could not allocate time for his underwater possessions. The humor here is that not even God can handle the paperwork that inevitably occurs at work. The reason for Poseidon's failures is understandable, he did not want to delegate his work, because he believed that no one else could cope with it. Poseidon Kafka is a hostage to his own ego. This story, with all its elements, makes it truly Kafka's, it is not only life's absurdity, but also the irony hidden in the illogical reactions of the characters, which distinguishes Kafka's works. His tragicomedy is a kind of mythology of the modern industrial age in which the logic of dreams allows one to explore the relationship between a despotic system of power and people entangled in it.
Take Kafka's most famous work, The Metamorphosis, in which Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Most of all, he worried about not being late for work. Of course this was not possible.
Kafka was inspired not only by the authoritarian business world, the problems of some of his heroes come from within.
The gloominess of Kafka's stories dilutes their inherent humor, based on absurd logic and the situations described. On the one hand, it is easy to recognize the Kafkaesque in the modern world, we rely on an increasingly confusing administrative system that permeates all areas of our life and it seems that every word we say is evaluated by people whom we do not see, according to rules that we do not know. On the other hand, drawing our attention to the absurdity, Why did I write this article? For what? In fact, maybe this is some kind of setting for yourself.
After all, if we look in detail, then Kafka reveals before us our own shortcomings, as if hinting that we live in a world that we ourselves have created and it is in our power to change it for the better …
Here, perhaps, I will quote mr. Freeman
“I am the one who remembers what happened and thinks about what will be. I am someone who is not in the past or in the future. I am now. The whole world is eternal now. I am the center of this world. I am the center of my reality."
Therefore, accept yourself as you are and change the world the way you want …
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