Resumo:
Our work aims to investigate, in the works The verdict, In the penal colony and The
metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the notions of condemnation and guilt and how they are
related there. In these novels, the main characters are condemned and blamed until their
respective deaths. In our endeavor, we will analyze how the concepts of guilt and
condemnation appear; how Kafka's characters are stricken with guilt and how they are
condemned. In addition, we will investigate the use of the notion of “machine” in Kafka,
which, in addition to the literal use of the term in In the penal colony, appears symbolically
representing bureaucracy in The process. And we will also emphasize the role of life torn
apart from meaning for the modern subject represented in particular by the figure of the
traveling salesman in the novel The metamorphosis.
