‘To live outside the trial’: Anarchist implications in Foucauldian readings of Franz Kafka’s 'In the Penal Colony' and 'The Trial'
An academic article by David Tulley about Franz Kafka’s engagement with anarchist theory in relation to two of his novels.
La Proceso
Romano de Franz Kafka, la proceso estas pri la luktado de "K" kontraŭ la leĝa sistemo.
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination.
Franz Kafka and libertarian socialism
Michael Löwy explores the links between the seminal writer and the anarchist/libertarian socialist movement.
The trial - Franz Kafka
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Mar 17 2007 14:57
Franz Kafka's seminal novel, telling the tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Mar 17 2007 13:53
A short biography of the anarchist-influenced writer whose name spawned an adjective for the absurdities of bureaucratic power.
