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    ... Kafka’s impact is evident in the frequent reception of his writing as a form of prophetic or premonitory vision ...

    via ▻https://diasp.eu/p/17717760

    Wikipedia’s obsessions are nauseating. Kafka’s impact is evident in the frequent reception of his writing as a form of prophetic or premonitory vision, anticipating the character of a totalitarian future in the nightmarish logic of his presentation of the lived-present.

    (▻https://archive.ph/Qv50b#selection-4025.0-4035.0)

    They ignore the very place where he grew up and lived - the #Austro-Hungarian #Empire and its rampant growing bureacracy and that #Kafka trained as a lawyer - focussed on the insurance branch..

    The civil service was one of the most important linchpins of the #Habsburg-Monarchy and no less multifarious and complex than the state as a whole. It featured a strict hierarchy with a system of service ranks displaying intricate ramifications bordering on the incomprehensible. An (...)

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      (... on the incomprehensible. An) addiction to titles was satisfied by a canon of forms of address that the present-day civil servant would regard as positively bizarre.

      ▻https://ww1.habsburger.net/en/chapters/bureaucracy-long-arm-state

      [...]

      The subjects of the Monarchy considered the state responsible for everything and expected it to have a solution to hand whenever a problem arose. The ever-increasing catalogue of tasks to be dealt with in a modern society thus led to a a corresponding constant increase in the Monarchy’s host of civil servants. In 1880 it had employed around 100,000 civil servants – by 1810 [sic] the number of posts had quadrupled to around 400,000.

      [ibid] ▻https://archive.ph/8WOzv#selection-643.90-643.519

      Unlike dystopian authors writing fantasy, the beauty of Kafka’s works were that they described reality seen from a particular point of view - a detached point of view, of someone who could step back.

      “Metamorphosis” can also be seen that way, apart from the necessity to create a generic situation instead of a specific one. Waking up and discovering that you’ve turned into an insect is a situation less loaded with prejudices (speciesism?) than a situation other authors might have thought up which would then be politicised and confuse what it was that the author wanted to express.

      Any way - I find Kafka more important and relevant than the state approved dystopians so often quoted in internet memes and popularised in cineama and TV.

      Reading Kafka can help us relate better to what is now happening to the EU - and what was always happening in the USA.
      It’s reality we have to deal with, not some #dystopia (and its sibling - #utopia).

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