The undead metaphor in Kafka

Authors

  • Olga Guerizoli-Kempinska PUC-Rio

Keywords:

Dead metaphor. Automatic language. Franz Kafka

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect critically on “vi­tality” as a distinctive characteristic of the literary language and also on the metaphor as its supreme realization. Specifically, in the context of Kafka’s novel In the Penal Colony we can see that a dead metaphor, apparently opposed to the vitality of language, becomes an efficient instrument of the reflection on the perversity of our relationship with automatic language.

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Author Biography

Olga Guerizoli-Kempinska, PUC-Rio

Possui graduação e mestrado em Filologia Românica pela Uniwersytet Jagiellonski de Cracóvia, Polônia. Doutorou-se em História Social da Cul­tura pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, em 2008. Tem experiência nas áreas de Teoria da Literatura e Teoria da Arte, com ênfase em questões teóricas interdisciplinares sobre a relação entre literatura e artes plásticas.

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Published

2009-06-30

How to Cite

Guerizoli-Kempinska, O. (2009). The undead metaphor in Kafka. Gragoatá, 14(26). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33132

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 26 (2009): Metaphor - the everyday life and the inaugural

Section

Language Articles

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