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After reviewing the reasons why Kafka, in his short story “Prometheus”, produces four versions of the myth of Prometheus, it is concluded that the text refuses to become a parable in any simple way. Instead, it pushes the act of interpretation itself into the foreground, in this sense it is a parable about interpretation, which is not about the one and undividable truth but about texts.
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Kálmán, G.C. Kafka’s Prometheus. Neohelicon 34, 51–57 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-007-1005-y
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