Paying for the Service of the Devil. The Letter, Kafka and Mimesis
Demangeat, Michel
Paying for the Service of the Devil. The Letter, Kafka and Mimesis - 2008.
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Creative writing, which Kafka referred to as “a reward for service to the devil,” is examined here, particularly the letter, the driving piece of literary machinery, a diabolical pact. The letter is a bargaining chip against the marital contract, sparing the subject of the utterance, and thereby becomes the inclusion of a “mimesis,” a diabolical duplication. Kafka imposes a “Faustian diabolical pact.” The love letter replaces the love for Felice, who is placed at a distance in the position of a faraway beloved, here overlaid with Kafka’s depressive tendencies and his relation to the loss of the love object. With Hegel and the concept of recognition, this paper also asks if Letter to His Father is a temporary replacement for narcissistic loneliness in the problem of love and family. However, the relationship with the subject of the utterance remains an enigma.
Paying for the Service of the Devil. The Letter, Kafka and Mimesis - 2008.
60
Creative writing, which Kafka referred to as “a reward for service to the devil,” is examined here, particularly the letter, the driving piece of literary machinery, a diabolical pact. The letter is a bargaining chip against the marital contract, sparing the subject of the utterance, and thereby becomes the inclusion of a “mimesis,” a diabolical duplication. Kafka imposes a “Faustian diabolical pact.” The love letter replaces the love for Felice, who is placed at a distance in the position of a faraway beloved, here overlaid with Kafka’s depressive tendencies and his relation to the loss of the love object. With Hegel and the concept of recognition, this paper also asks if Letter to His Father is a temporary replacement for narcissistic loneliness in the problem of love and family. However, the relationship with the subject of the utterance remains an enigma.
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