Kafka, and More Kafka

Abstract

This paper examines the first appearance, in the writing of Kafka, of the temporality of the written word which forever cancels out what has not been written and, at the same time, sparks a “not yet.” The Kafkaesque story touches us because of these points of convergence and of coincidence, points which cannot be formulated and stun us and which speak to our “milieu of being.” However, the initial appearance is also the taking of the body as occurred when Joseph K. was arrested in The Trial.