The undead metaphor in Kafka

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Autor(a) principal: Guerizoli-Kempinska, Olga
Data de Publicação: 2009
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Gragoatá
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33132
Resumo: This paper aims to reflect critically on “vi­tality” as a distinctive characteristic of the literary language and also on the metaphor as its supreme realization. Specifically, in the context of Kafka’s novel In the Penal Colony we can see that a dead metaphor, apparently opposed to the vitality of language, becomes an efficient instrument of the reflection on the perversity of our relationship with automatic language.