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This article proposes to analyze the modern view of the writer's status with special reference to Franz Kafka, as glimpsed through images of the entertainer, the circus and the music hall. Evidence of these metaphors is to be found in Kafka's writings both early and late, for throughout his career the author returned to them and used them consistently. Taking Paul Bouissac's semiotic approach to the circus in general and acrobatics in particular, this article shows how Kafka exploited the multimedia idiom as well as the visual language of the circus and the music hall to convey his in-expressible self, artistic sensibility, solitary life and passion for writing.
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Torn between his languages and his cultures, Kafka embodies otherness. He is studied here from the point of view of heterogeneousness. Among the points discussed in an outline of the mechanisms of Kafka's writing are the sociocultural interspace, the psychic interspace, the "Jewish problem", the question of language, the relation to women and the inscription of the heterogeneous in fiction.