The article discusses the problem of irreversibility in the work of Franz Kafka. Through the analysis of some key literary works (The Judgement, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle) and diary entries it aims at formulating a specific Kafkian articulation of this problem, which involves a peculiar and a very complex relation between the old and the new. In Kafka, the category of irreversibility cannot be reduced to a possible consequence of the evental change but should be viewed as its fundamental feature.
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The article discusses the American animated series South Park, starting from the basic formula: South Park = Eric Cartman. The only – and not merely the best or the most appropriate – approach to understanding the specific structure and impact of the series as a whole is to focus on a single character, that of Eric Cartman. It is argued that he is the character that within the series functions as its concrete representative, as an element that is not only part of the series, but »is« the series. In the second part the article provides an analysis of three episodes dealing with three figures of Cartman's doubles. In the third part it poses the question on the possibility of continuation of the series after its inner ending, namely after the staging of the essence of its artistic procedure.
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