It is almost well known that Franz Kafka has practiced serious
influences on so many Arabic novelists and short story writers, especially
in the sixties and the seventies of last century. Among the most important
and central themes in this writer'
s works is what we call (The authority
and the chased hero). And being one of Kafka's most influential themes
on Arabic novelists, we have chosen it as the topic of this paper. For the
practical study we took, on one side, all Kafka's novels, and on the other,
that is the Arabic novels, we took some of four writers' novels. Those
four writers are: Fadhil al- Azzawi, Jabra I. Jabra, George Salim and
Muhyi Eldeen Zangana.
The study traces the encounter faces between the novels of Kafka
and those of the chosen Arabic novelists.
