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This human beetle, turned on its back unjustly, treacherously, and aggressively, will get back up and give birth to a normal human being despite all the civilized beasts turning against us. But the more intricate the tunnel gets the more paranoid the mole be- comes that there is a beast outside that audibly pursues him.

They ingratiate themselves bycalling him the long-awaited savior from their submission to the Arabs. And how theyhate us. Text-immanentreadings have concocted commonplaces such as the incommensurability be-tween matter and spirit or the dialectic structure of human existence. But the cares we have to struggle with every day: Sokel, Franz Kafka—Tragik und Ironie: Zur Struktur seiner Kunst Munich, See also William C. See Sander Gilman, Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient New York, , pp.

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Grete Schaeder, 3 vols. Heidelberg, —75 , 1: It is important to note that Kafka chose not to use the technical term Fabel. The literal term animal story appears to avoid the moralist baggage of fables. Kafka, The Complete Stories, ed. Glatzer New York, , p.

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Conversely, see Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox Ithaca, N. See Sokel, Kafka, p. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins [Cambridge, ], p. The concept is also not dissimilar tothe deconstructionism associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Harold Bloom New York, Instead of providing the expected ethnographic account of his life back in Africa, he reports, sardonically, on the brutality of captivity and the dehumanizing process of becoming like humans.

The ape turns survival strategies into great stage performances of imitation, reaching such levels of perfection that his trainers suffered mental breakdowns. The ape takes no joy from his growing fame as he realizes that he belongs neither in imperial Germany nor anymore in his Gold Coast home. See Kafka, In der Strafkolonie: Eine Geschichte aus dem Jahre , ed. Klaus Wagenbach Berlin, See, for example, Gilman, Franz Kafka, pp.

Kafka, In der Strafkolonie, pp. Rather, the point is that colonialmimicry can illuminate the Jewish condition in Europe and vice versa. Instead, the narrator avers that theconstruction of the Great Wall was a mere ruse to cement social cohesionwhere all emperors had failed. Here, too, a nationalmajority is screaming for justice. Some have lamented that they are cast in thestereotypical role of a camel driver and that the story is set in the desert,when, in fact, Palestine was remarkably urbanized in the late Ottomanperiod.

See Robertson, Kafka, pp. See Rolf Goebel, Constructing China: Neither is omniscient or beyond reproach. Rather, both traveler-narrators are part of the crisis. Although the Arabs are haughty tor- mentors of the jackals, their right to exist is not questioned. On the con- Theodor Herzl, Old New Land, trans.

Lotta Levensohn New York, , p. A Bedouin An Arab,high and white, came by me, he had fed the camel. It suggests to Kafka that the terms Bedouin andArab were not interchangeable.

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But it doesroot the narrative presence of the people of the oasis. Some settler-Zionistsat the time considered Bedouins as lost Jewish tribes. Kafka, Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente, ed. Malcolm Pasley, 2 vols. Mark LeVine, Overthrowing Geography: A Human Rights Web,qumsiyeh. The complexity of his Arab character stands in stark contrast to the way Zionists in and out- side Palestine treated its native inhabitants.

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But Brenner also had few good things to say about the native population. Piterberg, The Returns of Zionism, p. Indeed, the Arab treats the disoriented European traveler toa smug comparison: Brod [New York, ], pp. See also Alter, Necessary Angels, p. See Kenneth Stow, Jewish Dogs: Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers: See Anderson, Reading Kafka, pp.

Ivan Davidson Kalmar and D. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinski Berkeley, Efron, Defenders of the Race: Todd Samuel Presner, Muscular Judaism: See also Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers. Quoted in Robertson, Kafka, p. Ghada Karmi, Married to Another Man: Quoted in Bruce, Kafka and Cultural Zionism, p.

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Itwill never alleviate the economic and social plight of the Jewish masses. Zipperstein, The Elusive Prophet: Jewish Libertarian Thought in CentralEurope: But even his recognition of signs of national aspirations among the Arabs of Palestine following his visit in stopped neither him nor any other Zionist in Prague from organizing the colonization of Palestine. On the complexity of the concept of galut and the foundational myths of Israel, see Piterberg, The Returns of Zionism, pp.

Arthur Cohen, The Jew: In an early exchange in , Bergmann complained to his friend: LikeBrod, he did not want to wait for an international charter before launchingthe colonization of Palestine. In-spired by the vitalist theories of Ukranian-born Jewish thinker MicaJoseph Berdyczewski, Bergmann outlined his principles of cultural Zion-ism.


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After millennia of stateless spirituality, cultural Zionism stood for areturn to history through Jewish statehood, which, in turn, would reinvig-orate the totality of Jewish life. Jews, Christians, andMuslims lived in considerable harmony while the Ottoman governmentwas already busy settling Bedouins to raise agricultural productivity and See Brod, Streitbares Leben: Miriam Sambursky, 2 vols. Berlin, , 1: Erinnerungen an Franz Kafka, ed. Hans-Gerd Koch Berlin, , pp. Palestine was a land brimming with Zionist promise, despite the cynicism of settlers like the Hebrew novelist Brenner.

Palestine does not wait for settlers and its inhabitants have neither the desire nor the reason to let go of their property. Bergmann conceded that Brenner had a point. But instead of unequivo- cally defending his own conviction that the galut is part of Judaism, he came to accept the Zionist mantra of the negation of exile as he urged his readers to intensify Jewish immigration and to improve Zionist coloniza- tion efforts. See Eugene Lunn, Prophet of Community: Kafka to Felice Bauer, 12 Sept.

Kafka, Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente, 2: See Kafka to Brod, 6 Feb. Richard and Clara Winston New York, , p. Prague was a hub of Jewish information andexperimentation. Save komarek to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed. Unfollow komarek to stop getting updates on your eBay feed. You'll receive email and Feed alerts when new items arrive. Turn off email alerts. Skip to main content. Refine your search for komarek. Refine more Format Format. Items in search results.

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