The Village Schoolmaster

by

Franz Kafka

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The Village Schoolmaster Symbols

The Mole

Kafka’s work notoriously rejects easy summary, and his use of symbols in “The Village Schoolmaster” is no exception. Although the story’s central symbol, the mole, cannot be said to mean anything explicitly, it is tied…

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The Pamphlets

The sole fruit of the protagonists’ labors is the publication of their two separate pamphlets about the mole. These pamphlets are the means through which the narrator and schoolmaster attempt to communicate with the…

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