One of the most highly-acclaimed contemporary theorists of the image and the visual, the French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain has recently ventured into the domain of the written word, by addressing Kafka’s work in a surprising essay about the possibility of decolonisation on the basis of literary fiction. Afonso Dias Ramos writes about her latest book, K comme Kolonie, Kafka et la décolonisation de l'imaginaire [K for Kolony – Kafka and the Decolonisation of the Imaginary].