Kafka's humor (was Fargo)

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

On Kafka's humor--

Anybody who doesn't think Kafka is plain downright funny is missing a great part of his 
work.  Read *The Country Doctor* (actually all of his work is very funny) where, after a 
team of enormous horses and a groom emerge from an impossibly  tiny little crawl space 
the narrator says something like: "You never know what you're going to find in your 
own back yard."  I realize humor out of context doesn't work too well, but read the story 
and you'll see.  Or look at those clown-like executioners at the end of THE TRIAL, or 
Gregor worrying about being late for work in METAMORPHOSIs.  Lighten' up.  Franz is a 
very funny writer.

john m
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