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The Outsider in Labyrinth: An Analysis of Kafka’s The Castle
Zhang Qin
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2019.06.004
South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangdong, China
The openness of Kafka’s stories arises from the labyrinth atmosphere in his works, which is the greatest virtue in him. The paper mainly focuses on The Castle, and tries to find out what labyrinth Kafka has created in it, through the analysis of his unique writing style: ambiguous setting, unusual narrative angle, and curious use of language. He enhances the aura of labyrinth by picturing the characters, and he not only manages to exclude readers from his inner world, but also creates a system, or circumstance, in which an outsider who keeps searching for a sense of belonging, for the meaning of existence is emerged.
Kafka, outsider, labyrinth, The Castle
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