Erotic scenographies : Blanchot, Nietzsche & the exigency of return
It is undoubtedly one of Kafka's finest erotic scenes â the description of K.'s furtive tryst on the tap-room floor. â Wrapped in Frieda's arms, he rolls back and forth through small puddles of beer and rubbish, her small body burning in his reluctant hands. ~Hours passed there,~ writes Kafka, ~hours breathing together with a single heartbeart [gemeinsamen Herzschlags], hours in which K. constantly felt he was lost or had wandered farther into foreign lands [der Fremde] than any human being before him ...~ What makes this passage so compelling is the manner in which Kafka, in four short lines, manages to distil everything ambiguous and terrifying about the erotic relation into a scene which, otherwise, could almost pass for sentimental.
Kuzma, Joseph Dlaboha
PQ Romance literatures ; PT Germanic literature
Erotic scenographies : Blanchot, Nietzsche & the exigency of return. It is undoubtedly one of Kafka's finest erotic scenes â the description of K.'s furtive tryst on the tap-room floor. â Wrapped in Frieda's arms, he rolls back and forth through small puddles of beer and rubbish, her small body burning in his reluctant hands. ~Hours passed there,~ writes Kafka, ~hours breathing together with a single heartbeart [gemeinsamen Herzschlags], hours in which K. constantly felt he was lost or had wandered farther into foreign lands [der Fremde] than any human being before him ...~ What makes this passage so compelling is the manner in which Kafka, in four short lines, manages to distil everything ambiguous and terrifying about the erotic relation into a scene which, otherwise, could almost pass for sentimental.
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