Abstract:Kafka hermeneutics experience This paper explores the politics of interpretation from the perspective of hermeneutic theory. It presents a reading of Kafka's novel The Castle focused on critique of the business of interpretation, where suspicion unfolds in distorted, possibly fraudulent, sensemaking between protagonist, narrator and reader. The protagonist's mission is neither heroic nor a call to resistance to bureaucratic absurdity, but instead, the result of hubris, hoax, or even a slip of the pen, and it b… Show more
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