Franz Kafka: un escritor checo en los reinos del “realismo mágico” y otras confusiones conceptuales

Abstract

The essay considers different aspects of Kafka’s influence on Latin American literature and culture. It focuses on the concept of ‘influence’ and its interpretation in Borges, on the modalities of the absurd, and on the vexing confusions around the concept of ‘magic realism’.

Keywords

• franz kafka
• jorge luis borges
• alejo carpentier
• the absurd
• magic realism
• the magic real