Franz Kafka

Frants Kafka (1883-1924) - odin iz samykh vlijatelnykh pisatelej XX veka, klassik nemetskojazychnoj literatury i kljuchevaja figura modernizma. Ego proza uznavaema po pugajusche jasnomu stilju, v kotorom predelnaja tochnost jazyka sochetaetsja s atmosferoj trevogi, absurda i otchuzhdennosti. Kafka v novykh formakh osmyslivaet fundamentalnye voprosy chelovecheskogo suschestvovanija - viny, vlasti, bespomoschnosti, odinochestva i neprozrachnosti slozhnykh sistem. Ego teksty, pri vneshnej prostote, raskryvajut glubokie psikhologicheskie i filosofskie sloi, a sozdannye im situatsii stali naritsatelnymi: "kafkianskij" teper oznachaet stolknovenie cheloveka s irratsionalnymi, nepostizhimymi silami. Chem bolshe Jozef K., protiv kotorogo vedut absurdnyj protsess, pytaetsja vyjasnit svoju ne nazvannuju vinu i zaschischatsja, tem glubzhe on pogruzhaetsja v koshmarnye labirinty neprozrachnogo gosudarstvennogo mekhanizma. Neofitsialnost suda, jutjaschegosja na cherdakakh obvetshalykh domov, svodit na net ego torzhestvennuju surovost i stroguju ratsionalnost. Grotesknyj komizm smenjaetsja besposchadnoj tragediej. Tragediej, gde sudboj cheloveka rasporjazhaetsja bjurokraticheskaja sistema.

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