Sunday, December 6, 2009
More symbols?!!
As Andrea said, Kafka's writing treats everything as if it is factual, if a shade fantastic. But that does not mean that there are not implications in his writing of meanings beyond the literal. Review your reading of "The Hunger Artist" and comment on some aspect of the story that takes you beyond the literal meanings in the story. Consider the images we mentioned in class: the impresario, fasting as a profession or art, the watchers or audience, the cage, the circus, the panther. Or comment on some other aspect of the story that held additional meaning for you or respond to one of the comments made in class. Just push yourself to look past the literal.
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