Od perfumowanych wąsów do ornamentów języka. Fizjonomia pisania w Procesie Franza Kafki
From Perfumed Moustache to the Ornaments of Language. Physiognomy of Writing in Franz Kafka’s „Trial”

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with a chapter from Franz Kafka’s Trial through a visual mode which shapes the writing of the text. This mode is represented by the architecture of the gothic cathedral, based on Wilhelm Worringer’s notion of “the gothic will to form,” embodied in the figure of an ornament. The space of the cathedral inspires an approach to literary speech from the perspective of its motion and physiognomy. This staged encounter of literary speech and gothic space allows to concentrate on the anonymous “movement of writing” that passes through the text, on the understanding of its visuality and its resonance with space.

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