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Article: Approaches to Personal Identity in Kafka's Short Fiction: Freud, Darwin, Kierkegaard.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2001
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Approaches to Personal Identity in Kafka's Short Fiction: Freud, Darwin, Kierkegaard. By LEENA EILITTA. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Sciences. 1999. 227 pp. 120 FMK.
For more than half a century, industrious minds have unpicked every thread in Kafka's work, evaluated each word he used, and upturned every stone on the path he trod. If Valerie Greenberg can uncover parallels between such apparently ill-matched figures as Kafka and Max Planck, then the author's debt to Freudian psychoanalysis, Social Darwinism, and Kierkegaard's religious-existential philosophy should provide an easy brief. The challenge is to find a new purchase on the rock-face. Like so many ...