The perverse reader: sovereignty and violence in the literary interpretation of Kafka and Camus
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2023.258337Keywords:
recepção literária, soberania, pragmática, comunicação, legitimidadeAbstract
This article studies the pragmatic effects of reader sovereignty when interpreting literary texts. Based on Letter to the Father, by Kafka, and The Stranger, by Camus, it verifies the ways in which readers interpret the experiences of the subjects (Kafka himself, sender of the letter; or Meursault, narrator-character of Camus) and feedback what these same subjects suffer. Methodologically, Jakobson and Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson are used. Kafka reverses the father's double binds to escape the untenable situation. Meursault maintains his posture, delivering the interpretation of his destiny to readers and other characters, being killed at the end of the plot.
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