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"From an urn already crumbled to dust": Kafka's use of parable and the midrashic mashal.(Franz Kafka)(Critical essay)

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From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Date: 20060622
Author:Powell, Matthew T.

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought. (Psalm 78:1-4)

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IN August of 1917, Franz Kafka coughed blood for the first time. It was the first visible indication of an illness Kafka had known was coming--if not wished into ...

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