Equal Quote by Primo Levi

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he…

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

— Margaret Atwood

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

— Milos Forman

“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of…

— Reiner Stach

Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It…

— Reiner Stach

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get…

— David Sedaris

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

“It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally…

— Jonathan Franzen

“A quick look at the map of Europe suggests that Kafka either had a profound ignorance of geography or a profound grasp of emotional…

— James Hawes

“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do…

— G.K. Chesterton

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

— Manuel Puig