Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica (Jul 2024)

Nie/rad/ość. Felicytologiczna lektura „Dzienników" Franza Kafki

  • Mariusz Jochemczyk,
  • Miłosz Piotrowiak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.08.08

Abstract

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The article attempts to find states of joy in a writer whom no one suspects of such affects. In a contradictious way, the authors try to catch the „sad person from Prague” in the act: expressing happiness, revealing states of excitement, or even joy. As a result of their research, the authors conclude that moments of well-being in life are shown in Kafka’s diary entries not as experienced but as squandered. That’s why the eponymous „dis/joy” has such a bitter meaning.

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