Kafka in Arabic Novel And The Authority and the Chased Hero


Abstract in English

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.

References used

Gray, Ronald (ed.): Kafka, U.S.A, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965
Kafka, Franz: The Trial, Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, London, 1963
Longley, John Lewis (JR): The Tragic Mask- A Study of Faulkner’s Heroes, U.S. A., Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1963

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