This article reflects about the importance of Cheque writer Franz Kafka in the literary world of the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Kafka is an author cited and referred to frequently by Carpentier in his literary work (fiction and essay). Nevertheless, he it is not a traditional influence, but a model that boosted a slow transformation of Carpentiers “real marvelous” including the establishment of the marvelous as an atemporal cultural concept.
The essay considers different aspects of Kafka’s influence on Latin American literature and culture. It focuses on the concept of ‘influence’ and its interpretation in Borges, on the modalities of the absurd, and on the vexing confusions around the concept of ‘magic realism’.
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