What kind of funny is Kafka? • Hacker News Board

Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?

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Post by jeffsco » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 4:47 AM UTC

I find Rivka Galchen's essays enthralling. One intriguing thing she wrote a while back is that the game Minecraft has a Joycean quality. I don't know what she means by this, but I'm pretty sure she's correct.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/books/review/who-are-james...

Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?

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Post by gioele » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 7:03 AM UTC

> Kafka was known to laugh uncontrollably when reading his work aloud to friends.

Does anybody know the source of this statement? I have read it for years and I always wondered where it comes from. Some interview with a friend of him? A friend's diary? Chronicles of the time?

Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?

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Post by dschiptsov » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 9:34 AM UTC

He mastered his style of "special effects" made out of words - grotesque metamorphoses of familiar day-to-day situations.

Like it is with modern 3D special effects, out minds "get aroused" watching them, and we, persons, like them due to some hormonal feedback loops.

Why not keep it that simple?)

Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?

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Post by pdkl95 » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

Funny? Sure, when it is "the ONION"-style satire!

http://www.theonion.com/video/pragues-franz-kafka-internatio...