La Città Proibita nell'opera di Franz Kafka

Among the architectures that punctuate Kafka’s work, particularly recurrent are those inspired by the Forbidden City. Taking a cue from the thousands of interlocking rooms and courtyards which make up and surround the Chinese Imperial Palace, Kafka gives life to architectural structures that stretch into infinity, illuminated by an unquenchable light and inhabited by a supreme, inaccessible authority. The latter is the symbolic representation of a precise conception of the Divine. The essay aims to demonstrate that behind the architectural model of the Forbidden City lies a more hidden one, belonging to the field of Jewish mysticism.