A Strange Thing or, the Strangeness of Things: Concerning Franz Kafka’s Die Sorge des Hausvaters
Keywords:
Odradek, Interpretation, Kulturwissenschaft
Abstract
Odradek, the strange creature Kafka made universally known through his short story Die Sorge des Hausvaters (1919), continues to pose a strong intellectual and emotional challenge for readers. This paper presents an overview of the history of interpretation surrounding this text, which, at the same time, reflects how attitudes towards Otherness have changed through history. As shown by the most recent approaches from Kulturwissenschaft, Odradek no longer stands for the unclassifiable creature whose Otherness must be suppressed, but has become an icon of the insurmountable strangeness of the world of things human beings are confronted with.Downloads
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Montané Forasté A. (2011). A Strange Thing or, the Strangeness of Things: Concerning Franz Kafka’s Die Sorge des Hausvaters. Revista de Filología Alemana, 19, 157-168. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFAL/article/view/37059
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Articles. Literary Studies
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