The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

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The Kafka paradox is the paradox that the work of art is to depict truth, but when it is shown, it lies. This paradox is to depict truth and prevent lies from being shown. This idea comes from Franz Kafka's writing. He was a writer and a philosopher.

He wrote novels and essays to explain his interpretations on human nature and how it relates to society. In his story "The Trial," the main character is accused of committing a crime he did not commit. The man who was accused died in prison, and his family was left without any explanation for why their son had been killed.

In the novel "The Castle," a man named K. is accused of murdering his wife, who then committed suicide. The author tells the audience that K.

did not commit this crime, but rather was framed by someone else. In both stories, the authors tell these tales about how people can be punished for crimes they did not commit and what will happen if they do commit them because of what the future may become if we continue these negative acts against each other.

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