SOURCE: Eilittä, Leena. “Kierkegaardian Redefinition of Identity: Erstes Leid (1921), Ein Hungerkünstler (1922), Josefine, die Sängerin oder das Volk der Mäuse (1924).” In Approaches to Personal Identity in Kafka's Short Fiction: Freud, Darwin, Kierkegaard, pp. 149-208. Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999.
In the following essay, Eilittä explores the influence of Kierkegaard's religious-existential philosophy on Kafka's attempts through short fiction to regard the notion of identity.
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