Kafkas Verstimmung des Schreibens
Kafka’s Dis-tuning of Writing

Summary/Abstract: Despite Kafka’s statements on his own lack of musical competence, sound and acoustic phenomena often result in very important themes in his literary works; we can say, that music resumes in Kafka’s writing the opposites of cosmical sound of spheres and reference to the lowest instincts. We propose here an interpretation which aims to show the Silence of the Sirens as an allegory of reading, in which the cinematic close-up of the twisting Sirens clearly hints to that crucial turning point, in which the writing reverses into a self-mirroring reading. This is strictly related to Odysseus’ drifting movement on background. On the other hand, is it possible to understand the function of this text for Kafka’s idea of the impossibility to grasp the conceptual paradox of Law and Truth, as they assume as condition sine qua non the Death of every individual attempt to enter the Law and the dissolution of the individual.

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