Illuminations by Walter Benjamin & Hannah Arendt & Harry Zohn

Author:Walter Benjamin & Hannah Arendt & Harry Zohn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literature, Modern, Literature - History and Criticism, German Literature, Philosophy, Political, Poetry, General, German, Literary Criticism, Historical, Authors, Biography & Autobiography, Semiotics & Theory, History and Criticism, European
ISBN: 9780805202410
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1970-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

This is the laughter of Odradek, which is described as sounding "something like the rustling in falling leaves."

When I kneel upon my stool

And I want to pray,

A hunchbacked man is in the room

And he starts to say:

My dear child, I beg of you,

Pray for the little hunchback too.

So ends the folksong. In his depth Kafka touches the ground which neither "mythical divination" nor "existential theology" supplied him with. It is the core of folk tradition, the German as well as the Jewish. Even if Kafka did not pray—and this we do not know—he still possessed in the highest degree what Malebranche called "the natural prayer of the soul": attentiveness. And in this attentiveness he included all living creatures, as saints include them in their prayers.

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