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- Title
MACHTDISPOSITIV UND GENDER IN KAFKAS ROMANFRAGMENT DER VERSCHOLLENE.
- Authors
REINHARD, Nadja
- Abstract
Looking back at the method shown here displaying dispositive power and gender in Kafka's unfinished novel The Man Who Disappeared, we note a clear tendency of regression and retreat of the young 'hero' Karl Rossmann. He often takes the role of a victim and fails in struggle, for example, when he wants to impress his parents by the defense of the heater. He is sorted out as undisciplined, in the male competition of the best he cannot stand. Also, sexual and dominant women like Clare and Brunella frighten him, whereas older women are more likely to provide maternal protection. The novel fragment is a satire of power relations supported by ambivalent and misogynistic images of the female body. In the tradition of the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Kafka shows a modernist tragicomic vision of the female sadist.
- Subjects
MAN Who Disappeared, The (Book); KAFKA, Franz, 1883-1924; POWER (Social sciences) in literature; BODY image in literature; SADISM in literature; TRAGICOMEDY
- Publication
Meridian Critic, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
2069-6787
- Publication type
Article