We intend to explore certain aspects of Kafka’s work which connect his experiences with the experiences of the man which lives in big modern cities, and that, on the other hand, put these experiences in "violent tension with the mistic ones". Some elements of Kafka’s work such as impersonality, anonymity, the many suffocating corridors and offices represent a diagnosis considered somber, but critical of modernity. We will discuss the role of the critic of modernity and the role of tradition, as well as the notions of guilt, and law, natural and supernatural from the parable Before the law, which is told to Joseph K in The Trial as a way to connect his experience to the tradition.
Walter Benjamin; Franz Kafka; Law; Nature; Fault