A TEATRALIDADE DO DIREITO E DO PODER NA LITERATURA DE KAFKA

Abstract

The quest for a distinct interpretation for Right and Power, far from the traditionalinstitutional definitions, leads us to the comprehensive concept of Art. Literature andTheatre are, essentially, artistic languages which can provide an understanding about socialrelations as extemporary and cyclic processes. Among many distinguished works, the productionof Franz Kafka is, undoubtedly, a great example. Even by pointing the State demands,the burochratic structures and others power relations, or presenting the individuals as afreedom less subjects without any autonomy face economic systems. His novels and shortstories, indistinctly, approach common motives to all modern societies, it means, the dualityof being and should being, the framing to an established order or to be condemned fordispersive or concentrated coercions. The kafkian literature reveals the quotidian life throughtheatrical elements, through comprehensive symbols and also non-decipherable ones, ofhybrid characters. A literature which reveals, in its core, the social life and its hindrances.The theatrality in kafkian literature yet reveals itself through its engagement, which propitiatesto every reader a deep and strange sense of complicity to the work: In Kafka’s view, weare always witnesses, partners or main actors of the drama. This paper aims to anlayse thetheatrical aspects on Kafka’s works, and from that, to unveal and to interpretate the powerrelationships found in his short-stories and novels.