Towards a Critical Reading of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Judgement’ Beitrag Larry Vaughan Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 65 (2016), Ausgabe 4, Seite 465 - 477 To attempt to come to ‘terms’ with Franz Kafka’s ‘The Judgment’ (‘Das Urteil’) in such a critical reading, we place father and son on a socio-historical and geo-political stage that highlights the force-field between “old” Bendemann (with passed Mother and surrogate son at the one pole) and “poor” Georg (with naught [Nichts] but the general “Mann” [(hu) man at the other]), in view of Freud’s organizing principle of “anxiety” (Angst ); which rescues (redeems) the son, paradoxically, in a no-win situation, (precisely) from his own dire fate, in a timely fashion. Finally, we go behind and beyond any tragic-comedic scenes, where the materially liberated and spiritually potentiated “sparks” of Kafka’s accomplishment (“breakthrough”) does its work, on the individual and particular, communal and universal, levels.
The “Ende” of Kafka’s Der Proceß in the Light of Bachofen’s Mutterrecht and Gräbersymbolik Beitrag Larry Vaughan Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 62 (2012), Ausgabe 3, Seite 353 - 356 Bachofen’s twin studies Das Mutterrecht and Versuch über die Gräbersymbolik der Alten apparently exerted a not insignificant influence upon Kafka’s novel Der Proceß, in particular upon the “Ende” which, along with chapter one, served as an initially constructive bookend. Moreover, in tracing the moments and movement of Bachofen’s research in Kafka’s final chapter, the following examination suggests conceptual connections rather than proposing definitive judgments.
„Village Property“, kulturelle Hybridität und Grenzen literarischer Übersetzung: Toni Morrisons ‚Tar Baby‘ Marion Kraft
