IL PROCESSO DI FRANZ KAFKA: TRA POSSIBILITÀ E REALTÀ

This essay analyzes the work The Process of Franz Kafka and its three streams of interpretation more diffuse: the one that considers the novel an anticipation of totalitarian universe; the one that sees it as a religious parable; and the one that tries to understand it on the basis of Freudian ideas. From the moment in which it is concluded that the Kafkaesque world goes far beyond these possibilities, it is an attempt at analysis, based mainly on the ideas of Milan Kundera. According to the scholar, the world of Kafka does not resemble any reality he lived or known but is, instead, an extreme possibility and unrealized human world. Due to innovations that Kafka carries in his novels, he can be considered to inaugurate a new and still open phase in the history of the novel. His capacity was not prescient, but the result of observing connected to a singular imagination, able to find the poetry hidden in the bureaucratic world.