Kafka - a Freudo-Structuralist Analysis
Kaj Bernh. Genell is a swedish philosopher, born in 1944, living in Gothenburg, author of facts, philosophy and fiction.The most mindboggling experience I ever had in my entire life was, and is, that I wrote a book, and that probably nobody has ever read it, or at least nobody has understood it, or at least nobody ever has commented upon it.
THIS book explains one of the most central features present in the main works of the marvellous and magnificent Franz Kafka.
What was unique
with Kafka?
Kafka uses high-Romantic Esthetik des Schwebens
and without this reference
to the Romantic Tradidition,
there would have been no Kafkaesque.
What - then - is meant by the term
´Kafkaesque´? We are - with the
Kaflaesque as our prime object of study - looking into this Concept
unravelling the secret behind it.
THUS
Kafka - a Freudo-Structuralist Analysis
is an analysis of Kafka´s
novels and short stories, with special
regard to the concept of the
Kafkaesque. This book
concentrates on understanding what
contributed to the famous Kafka effect.
We are displaying the ´Kafka Code´.
The author explains the structural
triplicity of a discourse seen
as consciousness. He is also
explaining how Freud, Romantic
irony, and Symbolistic literature
simultaneously co-worked to form the
mythical subtext to Kafka´s
work.
Franz Kafka created something
that would become part of defining
Modern Man. Understanding Kafka is
the road to understanding Modernity.
Many Dissertations and Essays on Kafka
have dealt with the strange "dreamlike character"
or effect of Kafka´s novels and short stories.
This has always been dealt with as if the
"kafkaesque" was brought about by the
adding of "Freudian symbols" to something.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Which is what this book
shows.
Rather, the case is the following:
Kafka´s
structural, literary form is
based upon a refined mega-structural
narrative split.
It is the split between
subject-voice and object-voice
on the one hand, and human
conscious and uncons©ious mind, on
the other. This is not easy neither
to describe, nor to understand!
The uniqueness of the works of
Franz Kafka and the perplexing
historical accuracy of the concept
of the Kafkaesque are both phenomena
that many readers and scholars have
noticed over the years. Through the
years, a fruitful explanation of the
uniqueness and accuracy of these works
has been missing.
Scholars have ever
from the 1930ies been noticing the
extraordinary qualities of the Kafka
text. Strange - Kafkaesque ...- features
have been attributed to the short
stories and the novels of Kafka.
The Kafka hero has - rightly - been
seen as a mere figure, and the
dream-like landscape-universe
has been seen as a characteristic,
and one has frequently been looking
upon these entities, together
with a few stylistic features,
as technical dominants
in the shaping of the concept of the
Kafkaesque.
Genell´s book
displays a model, together with a biographical survey
and a historical perspective on possible influences,
that, reversely, forms a hermeneutic, actual explanation
to these features, as well as to what is
denoted by the concept, from the perspective of a
dynamic contextual center, explained in a model
containing three levels, levels forming the discourse,
typical of Kafka.
This book tries to unravel
the enigma of the concept by reference to the
process of creation and by Kafka´s
use of TWO unconscious levels within the
universe of his most important works. The
veil of mystery may never be lifted
regarding Kafka´s eerie half a dozen classics of
Modernity, like it will
never be lifted when it comes to
literature as a whole.
Still, it might be essential - in order not to fall into
any metaphysical trap - to
know about the technique behind
the Kafkaesque to be able to reflect
upon the Self-Consciousness of Modern
Man of the 20ieth century, a century
so intensely marked by a dialogue
between society and the works and ideas
of Sigmund Freud. Self-consciousness
of Man, as it appeared with St.
Augustine, the great Italian
Renaissance writers, Erasmus,
Shakespeare, Montaigne, the German
secular Romantics, and Hegel,
swiftly developed into something
even much more complex with the
appearance of Freud and the groundbreaking
publication of his Traumdeutung
in the year of 1900, and, more so,
with the creation of the
Kafkaesque, with the works
of Kafka, around the year of 1912.
The birth of the Kafkaesque can be
dated to the night in the autumn of
1912 when Kafka wrote
Das Urteil.
The book,
revolves almost solely about this
strange split of ©onsciousness and
its ©onsequences.
The Kafkaesque is brought
about by two phenomena,
and the book
discusses merely the first
one.
The two phenomena are 1.) A literary
trick, built upon a split Unconscious
( strange as it of course may sound,
and difficult -) and
2.) a
unique mental sensibility.
NOVELS in English
Darkness - a Crime Novel
Ruben is a Philosophy student in Tampa, Florida. His girlfriend Eunice dies mysteriously. Ruben´s best friend, the brilliant Raoul, is accused of having let his dog Bandit, a Rottweiler bastard, drown Eunice. Ruben is desperately looking for answers and gets more and more involved in a nightmarish story.
The Lion´s Disease - a Crime Novel
The Lion´s Disease - a Novel (2022)
A large bulk Cargo Carrier ship leaves London Harbour. After a couple of hours at sea it becomes clear that there is a new disease onboard. Soon everybody realizes that a pandemic might be unfolding from this very ship. Samuel Diggersson, 3rd mate onboard, and his captain, Dan Stork, try to find a way to save the world.
With "The Lion´s Disease" ( Amazon Paperback+Ebook ), G. created a psychological comment on the problem of pandemics by describing an outbreak of a disease on a contemporary Odyssey to Indonesia on a Bulk Cargo Carrier.
This story is also available in Swedish: "Lejonsjukan" (2021) ( Amazon, Paperback+Ebook ).............
As a fiction writer, Genell set out with several books in the Swedish language, such as "Pistolen", [ The Gun ] Tavelstölden [Theft of a Piece of Art ], Tegelkrona och skönheten [ The Beauty ] and Höstdrama [ Autumn Drama ].The concise thriller story Skjuta sig fri( 2022) [ Shootout ] - was also published on BooksOnDemand (BoD).
Novels in Swedish
Tavelstölden,
Höstdrama
- FICTION IN ENGLISH: A Novel: The Lion´s Disease
- About Kaj Bernh. Genell (pdf)
- Engl.: Fell´s Point ( part ) (pdf)
- CULTURAL THEORY : Engl.: FK Biography
- Engl.:Kafka Biography (pdf)
- Engl.: Monologue on the Monologue
- Swe.: KORNETTISTEN
- Engl.: Monologue on the Monologue (pdf)
- Sv.: Kierkegaard - demytologisering genom skräck (pdf)
- Sv.: Berättarperspektiv i Kafkas fiktion (pdf)
- Sv.: Att betrakta en snegling (pdf)
- Sv.: Kopparbo - en barndomsskildring (pdf)
- Sv.: Kring Sigund Freud (pdf)
- Sv.: En liten bok om Castiglione (pdf)
- Sv.: Den romantiska Märchen (pdf)
- Sv.: S. Kierkegaard och Ualmindelige Evner (pdf)
- Tieck och den blonde Eckbert
- Flauberts ironi (pdf)
- Sv.: Att vara författare (pdf)
- Sv.: I Straffkolonien(pdf)
- Sv.:Kafkas liv i ARTAL(pdf)
- Sv.: FK-material
- sv.: Kafkas Amerika
- Sv.: Vad är en Monolog? (pdf)