Kafka – La littérature d’un conflit cognitif

The purpose of this paper is to show that as unfortunate and miserable as life might have been for the young Franz Kafka, it granted him a place of his own among the writers of masterpieces in universal literature. And even though we avoid indulging in establishing connections between the biography of the Czech writer and Huxley’s or Dostoievski’s biography or literary works, we shall examine a series of images fulfilling a compensating function, pertaining to a psychological register Franz Kafka could not escape from. By way of consequence, whilst writing he succeeded, as a first therapeutic stage, in overcoming his frustrations and unhappiness experienced within his own family, who made him suffer from low self-esteem all throughout his life.