Name: Sanjana

Registration no: 47930

Monday: 8:30 to 11:30

MODERNISM

Activity

Franz Kafka (1883 –1924)

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded
as one of the major figures of 20th-century modernist literature. His work fuses elements of
realism and the fantastic.

Notable Work: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Judgment etc.

To know more about Franz Kafka, click onto the YouTube link provided below:

The School of Life (2016, April 22). Literature: Franz Kafka [Video File]. Retrieved 10, April, 2020,

from https://youtu.be/g4LyzhkDNBM
ACTIVITY

Task: Read Kafka’s famous short story ‘The Vulture’ and comment on how you
can relate this story with the features of Modern Period. Word limit: 150-200

A vulture hacks at the protagonist's ft till a man passing via asks him why he does
not do something about it. The protagonist explains that he's helpless to face up
to, even though initially he attempted to drive the vulture away, whilst he noticed
that it have been close to assault his face he stopped, preferring to sacrifice his
feet. The onlooker exclaims, "Fancy letting you is tortured like this!", and gives to
journey and find a gun to shoot the vulture. The protagonist asks him to rush. The
vulture listens to the verbal exchange, then flies and thrusts its beak into the
protagonist's head, killing him, however additionally drowning in his blood, as it
flows on "filling each depth, flooding each shore. But this has been in comparison
with Kafka's Prometheus, with the vulture substituted for the eagle. Vultures
were believed through the traditional Egyptians, and later by means of
Renaissance thinkers, to be forever female, and self-impregnating .The name of
the text, "Der Geier", is moreover weighted down with various connotations. The
term "geyer" is Yiddish for "peddler", and might be a commonplace German
surname. Engels' 1850 The Peasant war in Germany highlights the life of Florian
Geyer, the nobleman who died preventing alongside the peasants within the 16th
century German Peasants' conflict, and who’s unwell-fated Black enterprise have
become a whole lot celebrated in German-language music and fable. even though
this highlights elements of modern-day length such has renaissance and
consequently the struggle in Germany.