K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him.... Literature and Law - Page 61edited by - 2004 - 244 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Robin West - Law - 1993 - 458 pages
...the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize...which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of all their tasks;... | |
| Nelson Algren - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 148 pages
...law—how can you claim to be innocent?" er—who ceremonially passes it back in an Alphonse-andGaston act. "K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to...hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast." 55 A "It may be no more than a coincidence," RepreQ sentative Busbey of Illinois comments on the suicide... | |
| Walter Herbert Sokel - Literary Collections - 2002 - 346 pages
...dream, it is an artist. In the novel, he realizes "that it would have been his duty to seize the knife, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into himself" (Kafka i946b, 2.71). 1 In "A Dream," two men, who correspond to the two executioners in the... | |
| Mieke Bal - Criticism - 2004 - 456 pages
...to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he wax supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled...hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own 20 breast. . . . He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of... | |
| Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas - Law - 2007 - 220 pages
...does not take his own life. Kafka casts this moment as one of inaction rather than overt resistance: K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize...which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of all their tasks;... | |
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