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Abstract
This study Franz Kafka’s fictional works is meant to investigate how the novels written by this widely-celebrated German novelist can be described as Writerly Texts. The main premise upon which the study is based is that Kafka’s narratives motivate the reader to be a producer not a consumer, not to be passive and parasitical in interacting with the text and to provide his own interpretation of the text without locating any ready-made meaning or significance. In fact, what makes Kafka’s novels have a variety of interpretations is that Kafka lived at the threshold of the modern technological world, and his stories are prophetic of the bewilderment and anxiety that typify modern frustrations and darkest moods: humans increasingly out of touch with their essential nature or, when confronted by totalitarian oppres¬sion, out of touch with society. The study, thus, seeks to explore the fictional world of Franz Kafka in an attempt to crystallize how his fictional works conform to Ronald Barthes’s theory of Writerly Texts. To fulfill this end, the researcher is expected to lead a twofold academic search. On one hand, the researcher analyzes Kafka’s novels to prove that an ideal text is one that is open to the greatest variety of independent interpretations and not fixed in meaning. On the other, the researcher endeavours to reveal the narrative techniques through which Kafka expresses his mysterious narrative happenings that have infinite possibilities of analysis. The works chosen to investigate how Kafka’s fictional works can be described as writerly texts are The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927)