Kafkaesque

  Where do I begin with Kafka? Well for one I personally do not like his style of writing. It's confusing, and there is too many different ways people can interpret what is happening in his stories and I think it is easy to over analyze what he actually is writing about. Which is what he intended when he wrote his stories, hence the term Kafkaesque (many different interpretations). I do not want to say that my way of thinking is strictly logic especially because I am also really creative. But there comes a point when I am just overwhelmed by all of the different possibilities. For example math: it's straight forward if you understand the steps to get your answer, but at the same time you can over analyze it as well. That's not how I am. I do the math problem and as long as the answer is right, I do not care if it is logical or not. But, now I am just going off topic. In this case though, I need one exact meaning of the author's intention behind his/her style of writing. This is what he meant when he wrote it and that's that.
   Like we have discussed, the traditional Gothic theme of a story includes: death, romanticism, bringing up the past etc. Also, that when an author writes about a typical Gothic heroine, she has one of two choices: go insane, or die (or in some cases, both). Kafka intentionally writes his stories in a modern way, but with a Gothic twist to them. Granted I am just basing this off of the two stories I have read by him, but I believe there is a common theme in all of them. We found out today in class that he worked inside the "government" (and I am using that word loosely) and therefore knew what was going on/ how things worked and he did not agree with it. Which is why in both stories we read for today, you could tell the theme he was trying to get across was: the "government" does one thing, but tells the people another. He does this in a way that makes you have to read the story a few times to understand what is going on and then what the message he was trying to send to the reader was, but even then your version is likely to be different than someone else's.