A question

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Kafka himself didn't regard The Trial or other texts by him as
what is understood by the eponym "Kafkaesque". He considered
himself first and foremost a humorist. Max Brod writes how "we
friends of his laughed quite immoderately when he first let us
hear the first chapter of The Trial. And he himself laughed so
much that there were moments when he couldn't read any further."
(Max Brod, "Franz Kafka: A Biography", tr. G. Humphreys, p 178)


Heikki

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Dave Monroe wrote:
> "What, in your mind, is the most celebrated case of  literary text for
> which an author's notes or initial scribblings run contrary to, or
> provide an alternative to, an agreed-upon interpretation?"
>
> Help!  Thanks!
>