The course is dedicated to Franz Kafka’s writings and to the issues of the “sentence” in its double meaning, as an act of writing, a syntax, and a as an act of the law. The thesis to be presented is that Kafka’s literature attests at the concepts of the law, judgment and guilt becoming the structure of language itself (understood as a mother-tongue, as the name-of-the-father”) being embedded in/written on the body of Kafka’s protagonists. Major reading material includes Kafka stories “The Judgment”, “Metamorphosis”, “Before the Law”, “The Penal Colony” and the unfinished novel “The Trial”, alongside Kafka’s diary entries and his official writings on the law and the work-accident.