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- Title
CHAPTER 7: Kafka: Tropes of Desire.
- Authors
Airaksinen, Timo
- Abstract
The article presents the author's views on Czech writer Franz Kafka's novels "The Trial" and "The Castle," which include tropes employed in the text such as metaphors, metonyms, and irony. They depict the dominant desires of the two main characters in the novels, a bank clerk and a land surveyor. The author mentions that both texts are meaningless in a special way and do not allow for a literal meaning as their tropological structure is devised so that nothing is meaningful.
- Subjects
FIGURES of speech; DESIRE (Philosophy); KAFKA, Franz, 1883-1924; METAPHOR in literature; METONYMS in literature; IRONY; TRIAL, The (Book : Kafka)
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2019, Vol 340, p128
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004410305_008