Oedipus, in ecstasy, plunges into the (im)mobile depths of blood: the fantastic devours The Vulture, by Franz Kafka
o fantástico canibalesco devora O abutre, de Franz Kafka
Abstract
In the dissonant announcements of a new perspective for the classic horror narratives that deal with the threat of the (super)natural, given the fictional fantastic, Franz Kafka had broken the barriers of the narratological structures, exposing the fragility that prevails over reality and its forms of representation, because, with his creative volatility, writer was able to unite the field of the parable, considered averse to the fantastic aesthetic, by having, not only, a reference, from the narrator-character, who enunciates a present voice, but, above all, by the implicitness of a cannibalistic (a)morality. Therefore, this work will be structured under the prism of one of his parables, The Vulture (1920), guided by the aesthetic devices that authorize an examination based on the indomitable effects of the fantastic, especially when inferring the domains of subjectivity and the unsustainable unconscious movements, Thanatos turned into a symbol by the language that frays it.
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