Abstract

dence. A theological reading of Kafka? Not, in any case, in the sense Max Brod had in mind in his attempt to understand Kafka using positive religious categories. For Brod, The Trial and The Castle symbolized two different approaches to a quest for God, In Scholem's view, it is this very notion that Kafka's oeuvre radically questions, mirroring, rather, the spirit of an age for which the very idea of a divine presence in the world had lost all meaning. Although Kafka's characters wander through a world they are unable to decipher, the reader sensitive to the

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