My scientific interests concerning Franz Kafka mainly revolve around the transtextual, metalinguistic and cross-medial dimensions. Starting from a transtextual perspective I wrote the essay Lücken und Fremdheit bei Franz Kafka und Yoko Tawada (” I quaderni dell’ AIG di Studi Germanici ” 3/2020), in which I highlight how Kafka’s and Tawada’s writings interact semantically with the forms of textual indeterminacy, from which they manage to define their idea of extraneousness; my book (in Italian) Yoko Tawada. Metamorfosi kafkiane (Kafkaesque metamorphosis) (2022), in which, starting from theoretical horizons concerning literary influence and the transtextual relationships between tradition and contemporaneity, deals with Kafka’s influence on the work of the Japanese-German author Yoko Tawada. I took a metalinguistic perspective in the analysis of Kafka’s diaries (Das launische nichtige Wesen. Sull’inaccesibilità all’espressione nella diaristica kafkiana, ”Cultura tedesca”, 55/2018), in which I focus my attention on the concept of inaccessibility to the expression and methods of settling the conflict between the Self and linguistic creation. In the essay On the kafkaesque in Black Mirror: White Bear as a case study (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) I propose a Kafkaesque reading of an episode of the British TV series Black Mirror, while tracing cross-medial links between the episode and Kafka’s guilt tales.
