Polysemy and suspense as literary and political style: Parabolic narratives of “Jackals and Arabs” and “The Silence of the Sirens”

Parable is a genre of oral and written literature, usually utilized to convey ethical moral lessons. Yet, Kafka's parabolic stories, “Jackals Arabs” “The Silence the Sirens” undermine any dominant perspective by transforming conventions parable genre: when socially controversial matters are presented through form in modern context, readers come observe variety perspectives simultaneously, instead presiding one stories Kafka. In detail, such provocative juxtaposition achieved narrating story deliberately secularized form. this point both no means teach readers, but narrative itself shows that possibilities readings or far from being monolithic limited. other words, interpretations not easily consumable, formally invites its suspect their own perspectives, sense belonging elements constitutes identities. Such deliberate opaqueness resistance easy interpretation among reasons render Kafka’s literary works.