Sublime

Il embrasse les siens, les rassure : Kafka n’est que littérature, l’Amérique, le pays des libertés, l’intelligence, la plus belle des richesses, le partage, la clé pour sauver le monde. Pour la première fois de sa vie, il garde son dernier projet pour lui seul.

for his heart was sore as never before.

rigueur. On a pensé que Kafka instruisait le procès d'une société mal faite ; le drame privé qui nous est conté ne serait que le déguisement d'un conflit social encore insuffisamment analysé. C'est la société qui serait responsable de l'aliénation dont Gregor Samsa est la victime. La Métamorphose serait une caricature de l'économie capitaliste. Cer

The peasants had sucked me as dry as a failed harvest, I would have perished, I went among men and did not perish.”

“Yes, poor man, he’s gone,” said the mayor. “And he’ll go on, planet after planet, seeking and seeking, and always and always he will be an hour late, or a half hour late, or ten minutes late, or a minute late. And finally he will miss out by only a few seconds. And when he has visited three hundred worlds and is seventy or eighty years old he will

The degree of agony here might be extreme, but the essential tension is the same one felt by anybody torn between work and family, between a day job and a creative calling, a hometown and the big city, or any other clash of possible lives. And Kafka responded like the rest of us, too, by trying not to confront the problem. Confining his relationshi