Kafka's humor (was Fargo)

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:

> 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.
> 

Or "The Cares of a Family Man". Or "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor". 
Or that far-out story about the manager of a tiny and remote Russian
railway station -- I don't know its English name. Anyone? Or
"Investigations of a Dog", which is probably my favorite Kafka text.

Heikki