Kafka and Groucho Marx

Hofmann reminds us that when his stories "were read aloud, people – including Kafka, reading them – fell about laughing".

The novelist and short-story writer Clive Sinclair, who says that he owes a "particular debt" to Kafka and to Prague, regrets that "you don't see any books on Kafka and humour. Kafka and Freud, Kafka and Nietzsche, Kafka and Marx; but not Kafka and Groucho Marx, or Chaplin – and he was a fan of Chaplin". - In The Shadow Of Kafka