Transmissão e narração na modernidade: Walter Benjamin e Franz Kafka - a exigência de uma nova narratividade

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Câmara, Anita Guimarães
• Orientador(a): Gagnebin, Jeanne Marie
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Filosofia
• Departamento: Filosofia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Narrativa; Literatura; Transmissão e esquecimento
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Storytelling; Literature; Transmission and forgetting
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11614

This thesis discusses works of Franz Kafka using Walter Benjamin s theory of narrative. Based on Benjamin s definitions of different narratives, we consider the question: "What kind of storytelling is possible to write in the 20th century?" Our starting point is the emergence of Modernism, which was brought about by far-reaching changes in the Western society in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The modernist authors questioned established beliefs and traditional ways of expression. Taking Benjamin's concepts on Kafka as our starting point, we expand them by examining five of Kafka s short stories. The analyses of the short stories connect themes that are common to both authors. We argue for Benjamin s thesis of the possibility of a modern narrative in Kafka. Such narrative emerges from the fragments of a tradition in ruins. This analysis of Kafka s work enables a better understanding of Benjamin's thinking on the effects of Modernism on expression and tradition