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English studies in Canada, 2006-03, Vol.32 (1), p.161-182
Ort / Verlag
Edmonton: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]the contentment of his employers will be Jakob's heaven, their disapproval his hell. [...]Herr Benjamenta affirms a nothingness that at once says that Jakob's education is incomplete-and will necessarily always be so-and that this education has reached its goal and completion-nothingness. Breaking the rules of the Institute is never openly permitted, of course, but such transgression would never threaten the institution in any fundamental way. [...]any attempt at revolution is ultimately abandoned (20), for in proto-Foucauldian fashion, Jakob has recognized all too clearly that it is the very existence of obligation (Zwang) that produces the pleasure of breaking the law (28). For while we understand that God is beyond understanding because he is absolute and infinite, and while Jakob understands, at least, that he understands nothing, Kraus remains unapproachable as demigod, incomprehensible, to the extent that one cannot even know what one knows and does not know about him. [...]the interruption in Jakob's language and logic-thus a sentence that cannot know what it says: "[S]ometimes I say and think things that surpass my own understanding."