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How Does The Greek God In Kafka's Poseidon

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In Franz Kafka’s “Poseidon”, the Greek god in this tale, just as the author himself, is presented as a bureaucrat, who is performing endless work from his higher-ups. “He could have had assistants, as many as he wanted - and he did have very many - but since he took his job very seriously, he would in the end go over all the figures and calculations himself, and thus his assistants were of little help to him” (39). In Kafka’s “Poseidon”, the god feels like he has lost agency of his own life and must take charge of whatever that is left in his life and will make sure that everything is in order by himself, even if it’s arranged by someone else. It was not that “he enjoyed his work” (39), he had already applied what he called “more cheerful

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