In this Essay, from the dislocations that happened in the Foucault’s genealogy in the History Research, it is proposed the analyses of the notion of happenings. For that, it has to recourse itself not only to the philosophical production of Foucault, as also to the Nietzsche genealogy. After the presentation of these "procedures of investigation", it was analyzed two novels of Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony. In the interface between philosophy and literature, between the dislocations proposed by Foucault in the research in the History and the iconoclast expressed in the Kafka’s text, it searched to identify, for example, as the body appears, in many moments, in the contemporary plot and, thus, in the denude universe by these thinkers. It is here where it was searched, based in the author critic, to exam the happenings that might be important to the research in Nursing History.
History; History of Nursing; Philosophy; Research