La détresse respiratoire

Abstract

The distress is the element of Kafka and will be analyzed from Kafka's work, including texts The Verdict, the Letter to the father and The Metamorphosis in which hope and distress endless respond each other in an absolute disaster. The questions are related to the mother's impossible mourning, to the name of the Father and to the body of which it is easy to imagine the pain in which Kafka lost at the end of his life. One element of understanding of this abyss may lie in Julie's dead children, the mother of Kafka, recessed forever in his psyche and in his body and showing an impossible mourning.