KAFKA'S LITERARY COMMUNITIES

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Abstract:In the winter of 1911–12 Franz Kafka developed a programmatic concept of community against the backdrop of a double frame, formed, on the one hand, by Martin Buber's Cultural Zionism and Itzhak Löwy's Jewish folk culture and, on the other, by the opposing outlooks of Max Brod and Karl Kraus on German-Jewish literature. Kafka responded to these encounters with two sets of texts, each constructing community by way of literature, as a community based on the circulation of writing in the 'Schema für kleinere Litteraturen' as well as a community resting on performance and speech in the 'Einleitungsvortrag über Jargon'.