La experiencia de la literatura

Abstract

This work analyzes the experience of literary writing in Franz Kafka, placing the acknowledgement of its singular experience into three analytic categories, defined around three notions that compose the literary field; the secret, where literary writing will be developed around the revelation of a truth, the wandering, where the literary experience is characterized by the drifted subject, and the threshold, where the experience will be related to the vacuum and the attraction for the empty. This overlaps respectively with three lines of Kafka’s work; the mystic experience, his lovers that represented the failure of his life and the urge for destruction. The focus of this paper is in the latter one.