Undergraduate thesis compares Kafka's novels Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), The Trial and The Castle and Smole's novel Black Days and the White Day. The comparison is based on Camus' theory of absurd. At first, the thesis sets the connections between the mentioned authors and then summarises Camus' knowledge from his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. The base for the texts analysis derives from this essay and consists of four components of absurdity (wish, irrationality, strangeness and revolt). Comparison then shows many similarities between novels, but also a major difference between Kafka and Smole: Kafka's' fictional characters can be unified with the terme "absurd human" and Smole's cannot.
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