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Kafka L.O.L.

Notes on Promethean Laughter

Quodlibet

2018

We are still debating whether Kafka should be considered as a tragic or nihilist author, a terrifyingly dark, sardonically bleak neurotic, or as a savvy comic writer with a taste for black humor. This quandary explains why I begin by wondering whether one can say that Kafka was “laughing out loud.”