Kafka, a justiça ausente, a inconclusividade do relato e o romance policial e da violência

Abstract

This article aims to analyse in Franz Kafka's novel the expression of the individual's crisis, the limits of rationalization and the metamorphoses of injustice and disciplinary and bureaucratic power in modern society. His work portrays the anxieties and alienation of the 20th century man, immersed in the big city, fragmented and unfinished. In Kafka, his great works are similar to detective novels, in which the discovery of the criminal fails: he lacks calculation and the solution of the enigma. The hero of the novel dissolves in metamorphoses or impossibilities, in long journeys with no destination, or unsettling and impossible waits. In short, the effects of Kafka's literature reappear in establishing other conditions of possibility for the detective novel of the 20th century, whether for roman noir or for the novel of cruelty. Analytically taking up his literary formulations, from the beginning of the 21st century, will provide us with morphological and expressive elements for the analysis of the novel of contemporary violence in Latin America.