ABSTRACT

Political borders, assumptions about war, which had hitherto been an exercise limited to the professionals and the unfortunate but now affected everyone, and even human nature itself. Art and human philosophy had to accommodate the changed spectrum of experience. Extreme interpretations of defeat were followed by extremist remedies. The embrace of a terrifying dictatorship had a psychological resonance, but also a suitable economic and political backdrop. The Kafka character is concerned with the search and the path. The novels and tales sound rather more like parables than modern fiction. The channels of communication are already marked out, and the rules of the game are accepted and adopted.