Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2018
Abstract
This paper responds to Timo Airaksinen's assessment of the meaning of literature as a creative activity. The main argument is that highly illusive symbolic style (form) of writing is not an art as an end in itself but serves purposefully to depict the circumstances of of human life in societies.
As illustrated on the novels of F. Kafka, the contents of his novels have the ambition to pass a meaning to reality that is left open to readers in search for a consensual interpretation.
A general conclusion is drawn that literary art bears a comparative parallel with modern social sciences and with the criteria for objectification of its content. Economics is an important part of social sciences that connects art with reality.