Published: 2024-07-03

Dis/joy. A felicytological Reading of Franz Kafka’s "Diaries"

Mariusz Jochemczyk Logo ORCID , Miłosz Piotrowiak Logo ORCID
Section: Articles and Studies
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.08.08

Abstract

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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Jochemczyk, M., & Piotrowiak, M. (2024). Dis/joy. A felicytological Reading of Franz Kafka’s "Diaries". Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, (2(8), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.08.08

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No. 2(8) (2024)
Published: 2024-10-22


eISSN: 2658-185X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FLPI

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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