The Horror Festival will publish the book “Kafka, lo kafkiano y el cine fantástico”

2024.07.22

The centenary of Franz Kafka will be represented during the Horror Festival through the book Kafka, lo kafkiano y el cine fantástico, written by Jonathan Allen and Jesús Palacios and co-produced with Isla Calavera – Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival, City of La Laguna (8-17 November). The work will be published by Hermenaute.

As its title indicates, the study addresses the huge influence of Kafka on fantasy film over the course of its history, not only through adaptations of his writings, but also the influence that his work has had on countless film-makers. In the words of its authors:

“Amid the centenary of the death of Franz Kafka, one of the most significant authors in universal literature and thought, we aim through this small contribution to highlight the extensive body of studies into his work, and its unique, fundamental and foundational importance for the fantasy film genre… [...] Beginning with the purely symbolic, allegorical and surrealist nature of Kafka's work itself, it builds a distinctive and powerful model of the fantasy world, which has shaped our vision of the universe, along with our relationship with reality, with fiction and the human condition. And if there is one genre which has felt this powerful influence more than any other, then given its inherent nature and its overlap with Kafkaesque thought, that genre is fantasy”.