The "Blueprints" of Revolution?: A Comparative Reading of Hannah Arendt's Political Thought and Franz Kaka's Fiction(s).

The article aims to advance the scope of the political comparisons between Hannah Arendt's political thought and Franz Kafka's fiction by the suggesting that Arendt's interest in Kafka cannot be understood in terms of a single parable. It notes that a reading of Kafka through Arendt's political thought would go a long way in exploring what was a neglected site of inquiry for both literary and political critics, the politics of Kafka's fiction.