카프카와 니체에 있어서 N포 세대와의 공존을 위한 삶의 기예 - 카프카의「세이렌의 침묵」의 철학적 해석을 중심으로

Abstract

The youth of N-Po generation who have got nothing before having lost something are exposed to the annihilation of hope as to the present as well as to the future. Likewise, what is the art of life for the young people of neo-nihilism times which annihilated even their will or hope to get over the annihilation? The starting point of life art for the youth of neo-nihilism times is to introspect the identity of the world where one resides. Further, together with the introspection as to the identity of one’s viewpoint over the world, it is necessary for the youth to have a practical molding corresponding thereto. If so, what type of life is the real one to harmonize introspection and molding? A short story which keenly describes before, after, and between a bout of match against the Sirens who are the absolutely unrivaled stronger is Franz Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens(Das Schweigen der Sirenen)”. Nietzsche also presents survival technique getting over nihilistic times as an extreme pessimist no less than Kafka. He confronts the truth of life which looks horrible and presents survival craft playing with it. This is ‘Dionysian artist(Dionysischer Künstler)’ presented by Nietzsche’s “Dionysian world view(Die Dionysische Weltanschauung)”. This is the art distinguished from Apollo(the god of dream) or Dionysus(the god of euphoria(Rausch))which are known widely through The Birth of Tragedy. It is the art playing with both instead of being caught in dream or euphoria. In this paper, this writer will catch the art of survival in the absolute poverty of N-po times through Kafka’s insufficient and childish means, and reinterpret philosophically it through three types of artstes in Nietzsche.