Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Kafkaesque
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own style as being kafka esque What do they mean
Kafka asked scenes to mean it's sort of like if
you hear a bunch of people talking about this great
inside joke that they all get what we were struggling
really hard to understand what they're talking about and no
one will give you any clues No one gives you
any help and when they try it just makes you
more and more confused So kafka was writing about these
stories about people trying to figure out their place in
the world but he does it from a very removed
standpoint Kafka as author sort of writes sort of in
a sterile way He just gives you the facts let's
the reader and do the rest of it's almost journalism
in a strange way Okay and as a corollary to
this what is existentialism Existentialism is a way of thinking
or usually seen like it's worrying about how you fit
into the rest of the world Does the universe care
about you Is there a point to life Things of
that are sort of the deep existentialist questions that kafka
was working with God it so we take out the
word exist in there and it's essential to exist and
calling it something like that anyway okay terrific What is 00:01:57.824 --> [endTime] kafka esque What is existentialism Say what