Il cane in Kafka, tra addomesticamento e diserzione

This article, starting from Konrad Lorenz’s thesis that links human being and dog inside the common destiny of domestication, dwells on the figure of the dog in Kafka. The dog appears to be an ambiguous figure, on the border between animal and humanity, characterized by shame, dependence and submission, but, in its silence and in its strength of instincts, it is also able to practice desertion from and resistance towards human domestication.