Summary
Günther Anders: Kafka - for and against (basis of the dispute)
"The monk Maximus Planudes, who in the 15th century published fables that circulated under the name of Aesop, says that Aesop's face was monstrously ugly, so deformed that it was not even recognizable. Aesop himself could not have found a better fable than a fable: because the truth of a fable comes from disfigurement.
This brings us to Kafka. The appearance of Kafka's world seems shifted. But Kafka shifts the apparently normal appearance of our insane world. But, he treats this insane appearance as something completely normal, and thus describes the very fact that the insane world is valid."
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