On the Survival Dilemma of Modern Individuals in Kafka’s The Judgement

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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Kafka; The Judgement (Das Urteil); Modernity Dilemma; Existentialism

Abstract

Through such means as metaphor and symbolization, Kafka gave his novel The Judgment (Das Urteil) multiple meanings, giving it the nature of a modern allegorical novel. This work contains the characteristics of multiple referents and complex meanings, thus providing readers with the possibility to interpret it in multiple dimensions and from multiple perspectives. In addition, in this novel, such propositions as the expression of religious meanings, the perspective of the image of how father and son get along, and the prominence of modernity under tragic circumstances have constructed the spiritual world behind this work. Readers can dig out the deep meanings in this work based on their own life experience and aesthetic experience, thus conducting further research on Kafka and existential literature.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiufan Dai
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - On the Survival Dilemma of Modern Individuals in Kafka’s The Judgement
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 643
EP  - 646
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123
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