K.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses K., the hero of Kafka's The Castle, in several sessions between 2019 and 2025, and each time returns to the same situation. He first stresses that this character is reduced to a single letter1. He describes him as a land surveyor who shuttles back and forth between an inaccessible castle and a village to which he cannot belong. In his view, it is K.'s very desire to reach the castle that prevents him from being integrated into the village2. In a session devoted to Mignon, he points out a detail: K. listens without telephoning3. In the more recent sessions, he focuses on the surveyor's trade, which introduces measure and rationality into chaos4. He later puts it this way: K. wants to introduce measure, the finite, but spends the novel shuttling back and forth5. The character comes up in varied contexts: a session on "An Imperial Message", a Musicosophie session and a reflection on the aporias of anthropology.

1. 1#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 42:30
2. 2Musicosophie 18. Ce qui est musical dans la musique25 Mar 2021 · 3:29
3. 3#1 Mignon ou le chant du silence7 Apr 2021 · 13:51
4. 4LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:00:15
5. 5Flagrandélices27 May 2025 · 1:45:50

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.