caa a22 4500 46320025X CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9030-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9030-7 Sidler Judith Department of German, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, B3H 4P9, Halifax, NS, Canada aut Das Lesen im entgöttlichten Universum: Kafkas "Ein Brudermord” als dramatisierte Metapher epistemologischen Scheiterns (Judith Sidler, Department of German, Dalhousie University) [Elektronische Daten] [Judith Sidler] Kafka's "Ein Brudermord” ("A Fratricide”) presents the reader with a vivid and multilayered allegory of the basic Kafkaesque predicament. In a number of intertextual references, Kafka invokes mainly one type of text: the "explanatory” or "master narrative,” i.e. religion and mythology. Yet, as one of his characters illustrates quite beautifully, in modern times, the "master” has disappeared, leaving only the "narrative.” In this story, which has baffled scholarship in its seemingly gratuitous violence, it is the inhumanity of a world which can no longer be read that Kafka demonstrates powerfully. With the help of a narratological examination of the point of view, the following article attempts to show how the modern failure of "making sense” is linked with the drastic and graphic murder the story portrays. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 German Literatur nationallicence Modernism nationallicence Franz Kafka nationallicence A Fratricide nationallicence Focalization nationallicence Modern crisis of meaning nationallicence Reading process nationallicence Intertextuality nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 473-486 0028-2677 91:3<473 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9030-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9030-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sidler Judith Department of German, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, B3H 4P9, Halifax, NS, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 473-486 0028-2677 91:3<473 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer