Kafka vs Proust

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In this video, I will talk about two of the most influential fiction writers of the 20th century, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered the best novel of the 20th century. Kafka’s short story the Metamorphosis and his novel, The Trial, were ground-breaking. Both lived in the same period, both with a Jewish background, both wrote about the human condition and both have given us literary terms, “kafkaesque” and “proustian”. I have talked about them extensively in separate videos, so in this video I will compare the two by talking about their lives, writings, styles, themes and finally what makes them great and how they are different. 

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00:00 Intro
00:48 Historical context
01:29 Biography
04:30 Influences
06:33 German vs French
08:12 Writing Career
13:27 Time vs Space
15:08 Characters
15:39 Writing Style
16:57 Pessimism vs optimism
18:17 Who is better?



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