Rustling of silence: how the sound spaces of Kafka work
Anna Gorn - about noise, sound and silence in "Transformation" and other stories The small prose of Franz Kafka is filled with a description of acoustic phenomena in the range from music to silence, which carry a variety of connotations, most often disturbing and threatening. About how these sounds (or their absence) help the writer build the internal spaces of his works - in the material of Anna Gorn. “Each person carries a certain room. You can make sure of this even by ear.