Literature and Crime: On the Demolition of Kafka’s Machine of Dreamed Inventions
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.20.3.139-147Keywords:
reading and experience, Kafka, literature and educationAbstract
The author relates crime and literature, taking into consideration the impact, as experience, that literature may have upon the reader. Using the book Don Quijote de la Mancha, he argues about the importance, for the reader, to question his/her readings. Two texts by Kafka, “Give up” and “The helmsman”, are read in a critical mode in order to let emerge a poetics of questioning readings and books.
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CERVANTES, M. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Buenos Aires: Editora Joaquín Gil, 1947.
KAFKA, F. Narrativas do espólio. Trad. Modesto Carone. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2002.
MANDELBAUM, Enrique. Franz Kafka: um judaísmo na ponte do impossível. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2003.
QUEVEDO, F. Los sueños. Madrid: Editorial Espasa Calpe.
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