in page 7:
"Yet the only exact description of this predicament is to be found, as far as I know, in one of those parables of Franz Kafka which, unique perhaps in this respect in literature, are real παραβολαí, thrown alongside and around the incident like rays of light which, however, do not illuminate its outward appearance but possess the power of X rays to lay bare its inner structure that, in our case, consists of the hidden processes of the mind. "
What does παραβολαí mean?

in this edition:
http://www.anobii.com/books/Between_Past_and_Future/011…

παραβολαí =parable = para + shot (saying);
para = around, along or despite...
Hereby Arendt uses this Greek word to show that Kafka's parables are real "parable", in the the original Greek meaning.