Kafka: uma habilidade necessária

The central idea of this thesis is that there is some connection between what writing represented for Kafka and the weird abilities of some of his characters. Thus, in chapter One, I argue that writing, for Kafka, was a need and not a pleasure or a reaction against something. Having this need, Kafka had to find a way of accomplish it: chapters Two, Three and Four present different solutions for this problem, being first mentioned in chapter Four the notion of ability. In chapters Five and Six, I focus on that notion of ability, as well as in the effects and consequences the performance of it produces, and I try to relate it to what writing meant for Kafka. Finally, in chapter Seven, I suggest that should exist some appropriate spaces for those who perform an ability and I try to characterise these spaces.