Die Kunst der Behauptung

Kaufleute und Künstler im Werk Franz Kafkas
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-89971-984-0
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Deutsch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

How do we stand up to life? For Kafka “a useful and sound man’s lust for life”, independence and success must eventually provoke injustice and cruelty. Therefore, he is striving to reconcile economic and moral action during all his life-time. He longs to righteously become independent and successful.This study collects the traces that Kafka’s inquiry into the problems of independence left in his writings and shows that his attempts to balance economic and moral action were at last fruitful. Scrutinizing the evolution of the merchant figure as a role model of an independent and successful man in his early texts as well as the emergence of an open, circle-like manner of writing in his second creative period it renders Kafka’s late texts as both, mirrors of their proper artist protagonists and morally improved revenants of his early merchant figures. Finally, it sheds light on the distinct sense of irony informing Kafka’s texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kruschwitz, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Leseproben

How do we stand up to life? For Kafka “a useful and sound man’s lust for life”, independence and success must eventually provoke injustice and cruelty. Therefore, he is striving to reconcile economic and moral action during all his life-time. He longs to righteously become independent and successful.This study collects the traces that Kafka’s inquiry into the problems of independence left in his writings and shows that his attempts to balance economic and moral action were at last fruitful. Scrutinizing the evolution of the merchant figure as a role model of an independent and successful man in his early texts as well as the emergence of an open, circle-like manner of writing in his second creative period it renders Kafka’s late texts as both, mirrors of their proper artist protagonists and morally improved revenants of his early merchant figures. Finally, it sheds light on the distinct sense of irony informing Kafka’s texts.>

Über Autor(innen)

Kruschwitz, Hans
Dr. Hans Kruschwitz, geboren 1977 in Berlin, hat in Aachen Germanistik, Geschichte und Politische Wissenschaft studiert. Von 2005 bis 2007 war er Mitarbeiter der Bonner Arbeitsstelle für die historisch-kritische Paul-Celan-Ausgabe, von 2007 bis 2009 Promotionsstipendiat der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Seit 2009 ist er Mitarbeiter des Instituts für Germanistische und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft der RWTH Aachen (Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Europäisch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte).

Dr. Hans Kruschwitz, geboren 1977 in Berlin, hat in Aachen Germanistik, Geschichte und Politische Wissenschaft studiert. Von 2005 bis 2007 war er Mitarbeiter der Bonner Arbeitsstelle für die historisch-kritische Paul-Celan-Ausgabe, von 2007 bis 2009 Promotionsstipendiat der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Seit 2010 ist er Mitarbeiter des Instituts für Germanistische und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft der RWTH Aachen (Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Europäisch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte).