The Autonomous Cyclops
Kafka and Homer on The Human Condition
Homer describes the Cyclopses as auto-nomoi, laws unto themselves. With tragic foresight, Homer pits the cunning wit of Odysseus against the self-contained, autonomous giants. Monocularity is the anatomical expression of self-containment.
Kafka defines the human being as essentially riven between the yoke of heaven and the yoke of earth. His characters s…
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