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Kafka and the east: the case for spiritual affinity.(writer Franz Kafka)(Critical Essay)

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From: Symposium
Date: 20020101
Author:McCort, Dennis

ALMOST AS IF SUDDENLY DISCOVERING that "the mystery" of Kafka is something to be carefully teased out of his curious pronouncement to Felice Bauer, "im Grunde bin ich ja Chinese", (1) scholars have produced a modest wave of studies in recent years linking Kafka to Chinese culture (Goebel, Hsia, Meng, Lee). In particular, his predilection for ancient Chinese lyric poetry, for ghost and love stories, for the inscrutable wisdom of the Taoist sages, and for various other aspects of turn-of-the century European Chinoiserie has been documented and thoroughly examined. Accompanying this ...

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