Sickness and Literature: A Perspective Taking into Account Kierkegaard’s and Kafka’s Points of View [Spanish]

Authors

  • Fabio Bartoli Universidad de Salamanca

Keywords:

Kierkegaard, Kafka, Literature, Sickness, Esthetics, Philosophy of Literature

Abstract

I analyze the topic of sickness in relation to 19th and 20th Century Literature in the Germanophile area. In particular, I examine Kierkegaard’s and Kafka’s perspectives. In the case of Kierkegaard, he principally wrote about sickness in his diaries, and in two important books: The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death. However, Kafka wrote about the same theme in all his diaries. Therefore, in this study, I will compare the different perspectives of these two authors in relation to both sickness and literature. Through this, I will attempt to extract any key aspects that can be used for identifying a more general relation between sickness and literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries. To achieve this aim, I will firstly scrutinize Kierkegaard’s posture, and then Kafka’s posture. Following this, I will compare the findings to draw general conclusions.


Author Biography

Fabio Bartoli, Universidad de Salamanca

Estudiante de doctorado en Filosofía de la Universidad de Salamanca, España.

Master en HIstoria del siglo XX, Università Tor Vergata, Italia.

Laurea specialistica en Filosofía, Università di Pisa, Italia..

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2020-12-12

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No. 35 (2021): January-june

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