The Truth about Sancho Panza
The Truth about Sancho Panza is a prose piece by Franz Kafka, created 1917. Was first published in 1931. It is a rare interpretation of a small plant. It is an ironic re-grouping and re-interpretation of the two people involved from the famous medieval novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605.
Preliminary
In the original version of the novel is above the thin Don Quixote the confused knight and Sancho Panza is thicker, peasant companion. The novel is a parody of chivalric romances. It has been interpreted over the centuries often.
In the little Kafka - piece roles now ( subject-object ) swapped while maintaining the actors entirely new assignments.
Content
Sancho Panza succeeded in distracting with the help of knights and robbers novels of his devil and let him perform the craziest deeds, but no one hurt. This vicious he later gave the name of Don Quixote. Sancho followed him impassively on his face, so to speak from a sense of responsibility and had great entertainment to the end.
Text analysis and interpretation approach
The prose piece consists of two blocks. The first set contains tightly packed in nested set progressions, the main information. The second set sounds according to its quieter content from contemplative. Sancho Panza thus has a devilish companion, whom he calls Don Quixote and which he has as it were spellbound with the telling of novels and has rendered harmless, but now seems like crazy and Sancho Panza caring keeps in mind. In the novel, Don Quixote is even confused, but he is the main actor, while Sancho Panza, although with shrewdness acts, but he is the second figure. Kafka returns to the one in which he " makes the guiding spirit of history" Sancho Panza Man twice experienced the confusing effect of literature. In Kafka's little story but reading also has the effect that the Satanic will be banned.
Relation to other Kafka works
Peter- André Alt similarly designated as the new lawyer, where the historic battle horse Bucephalus transforms its function to the books students lawyer to escape as a silent above the fray this little piece as a "library fantasy." A reinterpretation of mythical figures can also be found in small pieces and Poseidon Prometheus.
Text output
- Franz Kafka All narratives. Edited by Paul Raabe, S. Fischer, 1977, ISBN 3-596-21078- X.
- Franz Kafka The narratives. Original version, edited by Roger Herms, Fischer Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-596-13270-3.
Secondary literature
- Peter- André Alt: Franz Kafka: The eternal Son. A Biography. Publisher C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53441-4.
- Bettina von Jagow, Oliver Year in Kafka 's Guide. Life -works effects. Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-20852-6.