What are Kafkas fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafkas work to discover why K. and Josef K.the protagonists of The Castle and The Trialare so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calassos lifelong fascination with Kafkas work, K. is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself.
De que hablan las narraciones de Kafka? Despues de haber recibido respuestas innumerables, la pregunta sigue suscitando incertidumbre. Son suenos? Son alegorias? Son simbolos? Son cosas que suceden dia a dia? Las multiples soluciones que se han ofrecido no consiguen eliminar la sospecha de que el misterio permanece intacto. Este libro no se propone disiparlo sino dejar que surja «iluminado por su propia luz», como escribio Karl Kraus.
