![]() ![]() The aim of this analysis is to interpret how his writings are a blend of aspects of modernity and “Kafkaesque” – a very unique circumstantial situation into which his characters are locked while Kafka has thrown the key away. Attention needs to be paid to those grey areas. Kafka’s writings cannot be assimilated into one established theory. Theodor Adorno Claims in Prisms* that most of the critical writings which were written on him count little, as most of them are existential in nature. Martin Esslin opines Kafka’s works to be the embodiment of modern man’s anxiety, dread and purposelessness. Mallikarjun Patil in Franz Kafka and Literary Modernism* claims him to be neo-romanticist, expressionist and surrealist. ![]() Often have we heard of Kafka’s writings to be existentialist, but there are certain aspects of his writings which resist such labelling. ![]()
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