Abstract
Two ESL concepts, ‘construction of meaning’ and ‘literary system’, are used in order to establish a plausible methodological framework for dealing with the complex and vastly divergent Kafka reception phenomenon. The essential categorial groups of Kafka criticism (here somewhat re-classified in comparison with existing summaries) are thus identified as constructs linked with typical forms of group consensus, and divergent assessments of Kafka's life are seen as based on the divergence in the profile of those who receive them in different cultural circumstances, rather than on ‘objective truth’. In the second part of the article, the contradictions and complexities of Marxist Kafka criticism are defined and categorized with the help of the concept ‘literary system’, also focussing on the pressures concerning its demarcation in our century.
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