FOREIGNERS IN MUTATION: THE IMMIGRANT FROM FRANZ KAFKA TO ELISA LISPECTOR

Abstract

Diasporic, foreign and immigrant, the Jew may epitomize the condition of the stateless, deterritorialized, uninterruptedly in mutation individual. The theme appears in the works of two twentieth-century fictionists, Franz Kafka’s Amerika, or The Man who Disappeared, and Elisa Lispector’s No Exílio, both from a European reminiscent of the Austro-Hungarian empire, one of them residing in Prague, from where he rarely left, the other, settled in Brazil, where the author produced her literary work.