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No. 64

Kafka, Roth and Buber: around two stories (I).

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2021.i64.01
Submitted
October 1, 2020
Published
2021-12-26

Abstract

A dialogue between Kafka’s “Before the Law” and Roth’s The Legend of the Holy Drinker, two stories that almost literally coincide with the entre-deux-guerre period, suggests a comparison of interpretations where authors such as Benjamin, Arendt, Mann, Scholem, Adorno, Steiner or Magris have taken part. At the bottom of that comparison lies a question about justice and the drama of human life which in the hands of thinkers like Hugo Bergmann, Frank Rosenzweig, and Martin Buber triggered a rethinking of Central European Judaism, today almost forgotten, that nevertheless witnesses not only the crisis of Hebrew but also of European culture.

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