The issue of the model regulating the process of communication in modern societies provides the starting point for the analysis that follows. From the viewpoint of modern philosophy, we examine two stories which, by virtue of certain correspondences between them, explain and complement each other. The similarity of these stories, one of which is a literary fiction, and the second one, a real debate surrounding the television hoax, is too much systematic to be considered a simple accident or just another consequence of human folly. Behind this similarity, one should look for a more general structure, which is reproduced in both cases and controls the distribution of communication positions. The analysis undertaken in this paper is aimed at detecting this matrix scheme under the labyrinth speech- es forming the fabric of Kafka's story.
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