What kind of funny is he?
Rivka Galchen: Under Kafka’s Spell, 4 December 2014
Kafka: The Years of Insight
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 682 pp., £24.95, June 2013,978 0 691 14751 2 Show More
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 682 pp., £24.95, June 2013,
Kafka: The Decisive Years
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 552 pp., £16.25, June 2013,978 0 691 14741 3 Show More
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 552 pp., £16.25, June 2013,
“... those who have spent next to no time thinking.) My own such amateur conviction is that the life of Franz Kafka reads like a truly great comedy. I mean this (of course) in large part because of the tragedies in and around his life, and I mean it in the tradition of comedies like the final episode of Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson’s Blackadder, which, after ... ”