Franz Kafka : Schrift und Medialität

Abstract

“But every day at least one line should be directed against me, just as the telescopes are now directed against the comet.” Franz Kafka In the field of tension between writing and mediality, Franz Kafka's work gains a dynamic that is as profound as it is paradoxical: a movement arises between the writing process and the written product, in which what already exists is constantly rewritten and rewritten anew through references to his own and other texts and media. This book is dedicated to this context, emphasizing the undiminished topicality of Kafka's work 100 years after his death. The focus is on central key texts of one of the most important works of world literature: from the great novels to the diverse stories and short prose forms from all creative phases to Kafka's autobiographical writing in his letters and diaries. Under the aspect of writing and mediality, the relationships between literary texts and other visual or auditory media such as image and sound elements or films as well as the mediality of writing itself are negotiated, supplemented, for example, by the materials used such as paper, pencil or pen and their relevance for an existential writing program designed as a life project.