Freedom and confinement in modernity
by Aglaia Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis
Self (Philosophy) in literatureCriticism and interpretationLiberty in literatureImprisonment in literatureKafka, franz, 1883-1924Self in literatureGerman fiction, history and criticismLITERARY CRITICISM
Franz Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable.
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