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In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call “stereoscopic,” juxtaposing, like the optical stereoscope, two images of the same object seen from slightly different perspectives. Isak Winkel Holm argues that Kafka’s stereoscopic style is crucial to an understanding of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka’s work. At the level of content, the stereoscopic style offers a representation of the basic order of a specific community. At the level of form, the stereoscopic style is structured as the juxtaposition of two dissimilar images of the same community. At the level of function, finally, the style provokes a reconsideration, and perhaps even a reconfiguration, of the social order itself. In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiserpanorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus’ setup in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call “stereoscopic,” juxtaposing, like the optic

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Author

Holm, Isak Winkel

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501347849

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Political Science, Psychology