Frozen Sea and River of Narration

propose to deal here with an interplay of three particularly important poetologies and show how their mutually contradictory relationship can be used as an approach to Kafka's works in general and his two firsts in particular-Description of a Struggle, his oldest extant narrative, and The Judgment, in which he saw the work of his breakthrough. One of Kafka's very first poetological utterances is found in a letter of the nineteen-year-old to Oskar Pollak written in 1902. It centers on the reader and the effect books should have on him. I believe

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