Dis-adattare al debito : Kafka, la letteratura e la parola che chiama

This contribution, which is part of a collective research project upon the role of money and indebtedness in Western societies, examines how the specific counterintuitive worlds, Franz Kafka conjures, overthrow the individual adaptive behaviour inside a system ruled by recurrent crises in financial capitalism. As a practice of life Kafka’s literature creates characters and situations able to undermine and contrast a libidinal economy based on the servant- master relationship which still affects Western societies. Kafka’s stylistic devices extend the inner world of human experience by confronting us with moments of psychic intensity to which his creatures respond by breaking up current images and catachresised metaphors as well as by recombining words and signs in a new understanding of life and of human relationships