The setting of Kafka’s “Jackals and Arabs” is a bleak beginning as it signifies a crisis of location. Spatially speaking, the setting is abrupt and does not introduce the place of action in the traditional sense. Readers, in other words, are denied full access to necessary details about the nature of the jackals’ spatial origins. Even though the narrator in Kafka’s text mentions that “a jackal howled in the distance,” readers as well as the story’s narrator are incapable of spatially defining that “distance” and are soon taken by surprise when they feel engulfed by a swarming pack of jackals:

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弗朗茨·卡夫卡的《豺狼与阿拉伯》中的空间模糊性和犹太人身份问题

卡夫卡的《豺狼与阿拉伯人》的背景是一个凄凉的开端，因为它意味着一场位置危机。从空间上讲，设置是突然的，并没有引入传统意义上的动作场所。换句话说，读者无法完全了解有关豺狼空间起源性质的必要细节。尽管卡夫卡文本中的叙述者提到“远处有一只豺狼嚎叫”，但读者和故事叙述者都无法在空间上定义这个“距离”，当他们感到被一大群豺狼吞没时，他们很快就会感到惊讶：