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Kafka's Laughter: On Joy and the Kafkaesque

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Anca Parvulescu
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Abstract

In a letter Franz Kafka wrote to Felice Bauer in January 1913, he describes himself as a “great laugher.” Although Kafka is conventionally associated with anxiety, gloom, even terror, his laughter is joyful.

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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Emotions , October 2015 , pp. 1420 - 1432
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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