Franz Kafka: Difference between revisions

* [[No Ending]]

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] - In "Before the Law" or "Vor dem Gesetz", the doorkeeper acts as the literal and symbolic obstructive bureaucrat, blocking the man from the country from getting admittance to the Law.

* [[Ontological Mystery]] - ''The Trial'' is a cynical, bureaucratic example.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]] - Several of his vignettes feature rather bizarre and fantastic creatures, the oddest perhaps being the titular being in "Odradek".

* [[Unreliable Narrator]] - For example in the short story ''The Judgement'' where at first the narrator seems to be pretty much identical with protagonist Georg Bendemann, bragging what a considerate person he is because he doesn't tell his unfortunate friend abroad what a happy successful life he has. How nice and understandable, thinks the reader - until Bendemann's father calls him out and accuses him of being a liar so that we have to start questioning Bendemann's motives and if the friend abroad actually exists.

* [[White Collar Worker]] - Kafka himself and his characters provide an [[Unbuilt Trope|early]] example of this trope.

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