Abstract

BEJARANO, Alberto. Kafka in the burrow of capitalism. Nómadas [online]. 2015, n.43, pp.29-37. ISSN 0121-7550.

This article analyzes the short story written by Franz Kafka, The Burrow, based on the question regarding "what is animal" and "what is human", and what is involved in the crossing of this boundary, this being one of the favorite topics explored by the Czech writer. In order to approach this subject, this text is supported by the reinterpretations of Roberto Bolaño, based on other short stories written by Kafka, such as Josephine the Singer. The primary purpose is to study the anticipatory nature of Kafka regarding the biopolitics of contemporary capitalism as an anthropological machine to make live and let die.

Keywords : capitalism; subjectivity; Kafka; transdisciplinarity; literature.

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