Postcard 1, Kafka and Milena, prophecies and premonitions
George Steiner’s thesis, defended and developed above all in Language and Silence, is simple: Language has been destroyed by twentieth-century atrocities, in particular, by the Nazi genocide of the Jews. This transformation of language, particularly German, is clearly evident in Franz Kafka’s premonitory struggle with writing. The Metamorphosis is the story of someone who turns […]