Complicidades kafkianas en la obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro

On several occasions the influence of Kafka on Ribeyro has been studied around eight or ten stories written by Julio Ramón between the late forties and early fifties, due to their subject matter or their approach to the absurd, to some fantastic elements, to the strange or to ironic pessimism, that is to say, the work conceived until a realistic stage opened new horizons to his short story production. However, a deeper study of Julio Ramón’s work can relate it in a more accurate and useful way with the diaries, where there is a kind of spiritual brotherhood with Kafka confessed by Ribeyro himself. From this new perspective, it is possible to analyze some mature stories such as “Silvio en El Rosedal”, “Ausente por tiempo indefinido” or “Surf ” from the perspective of the writer’s status as an artist in contemporary society, which emphasizes the relevance of the creative subject more than the perfection of the created work, in the reflections on literature and art and in the presence of the writer in the family and social spheres.