Apuntes sobre el rol de Franz Kafka en el pensamiento literario de Alejo Carpentier

Abstract

This article reflects about the importance of Cheque writer Franz Kafka in the literary world of the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Kafka is an author cited and referred to frequently by Carpentier in his literary work (fiction and essay). Nevertheless, he it is not a traditional influence, but a model that boosted a slow transformation of Carpentiers “real marvelous” including the establishment of the marvelous as an atemporal cultural concept.

Keywords

• alejo carpentier
• franz kafka
• the marvelous
• cultural constants