Benjamin e a doença da tradição em Kafka

This article is an attempt to contemplate Walter Benjamin's assumption that Kafka's writings represent a disease of the tradition. It is particularly based on the well known letter written by Benjamin to his friend Gershom Scholem on June 12th, 1938, as well as on his essay Franz Kafka (1934). We close it with Kafka's A hunger artist (1922) as proposal for possible analogy