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In the penal colony takes an apparently simple, but difficult story and creates an intricate system of interrelating at all levels. I chose to call these relationships dialogs, simply because they are both ingenious bridges between different categories and the very vehicles by which an elegant net of fading echoes are channeled. These hyperdialogs mediate through the subject matter and the naratological form, characters - narrator - narratee, and of course, between structure and texture. They are, in short, the nervous system of the whole ontology that the text signifies; they never qualify this fiction capsule, but highlight its main or underground freeways. To employ a graphical metaphor, I would say that they reveal a descendant pattern of a spiral. Why descendant?

Keywords: Kafka, dialog, character, narrator, narratee