Dis/joy. A felicytological Reading of Franz Kafka’s "Diaries"
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https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.08.08Keywords:
Franz Kafka, joy, diaries, felicytologyAbstract
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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