MODERNIDADE E TRADIÇÃO: O SOBREVOO DO ANJO

Abstract

Franz Kafka’s work caused fascinationin Benjamin’s thought extended to several aspects of his work, which contributed to consider Kafka as one author from the same literary constellation as Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. So,start-ing with one passage of the Kafka’s Diary, where Kafka refers to one image/appearance of na angel, I tried to analyze the correspondences between them (Benjamin and Kafka), as well to understand the reason (very well explained by Benjamin), which took Benjamin to reflect about Kafka’s work. Even if it began with “angels”, the studied thematic in correlation with this analysis are much more prolific, reported most of all with the disenchanted way as both situate at the crossing between the tradition (Jew) and the condition of the modern man and his disenchanted experience.