Trafic, circuit social și sex în nuvelele Verdictul și Metamorfoza
Traffic, Social Circuit and Sex in The Judgment and The Metamorphosis

Summary/Abstract: Drawing upon critics such as Walter H. Sokel and Mark M. Andreson, I intend to explore the direct and implicit meanings of one of Franz Kafka’s most intriguing polysemic terms – Verkehr. The ending of Kafka’s 1912 short story The Verdict (Das Urteil), a piece of writing he considered emblematic and fundamental to his poetics, directly involves the representation of traffic, Verkehr in its most usual sense, a flux of life that continues after the protagonist’s suggested violent suicide. But Verkehr also means sexual intercourse, and Kafka explored this unusual semantic territory by using several sexual connotations in his writing and in his private observations concerning the act of writing. As he wrote The Metamorphosis shortly after, Kafka indirectly employed the same type of suggestiveness in order to reveal Gregor Samsa’s estrangement from the “traffic” of social and familial life.

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