Kafka's Laughter: Jokes During the War – Mok Keren – CoLibri – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-30301-0
Kafka's Laughter: Jokes During the War
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Kafka's Laughter: Jokes During the War
14.99 €
This book shatters a long-held myth. Before you is a sensational discovery from the Max Brod archives: a collection of war jokes Kafka collected with his friends during World War I. Funny, caustic, absurd, sometimes dark and cynical—these witticisms were a way for the Prague circle to survive as the world collapsed.
For the first time, the complete materials from this archive are published in Russian: war jokes, Kafka's drawings, his journalistic articles about helping the wounded, letters from the front, and eyewitness accounts. Additional essays by leading researchers immerse the reader in the context of Austria-Hungary's decline, tell the story of the Prague literary circle, and reveal how laughter became a means of resisting absurdity.
This is more than just a collection of jokes. It is a chronicle of a vanishing empire, a portrait of a generation, and a new look at one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century.
A book for researchers, students of philology, and anyone who wants to see Kafka in his full form—not only as a genius of the absurd, but as a living, laughing person.
For the first time, the complete materials from this archive are published in Russian: war jokes, Kafka's drawings, his journalistic articles about helping the wounded, letters from the front, and eyewitness accounts. Additional essays by leading researchers immerse the reader in the context of Austria-Hungary's decline, tell the story of the Prague literary circle, and reveal how laughter became a means of resisting absurdity.
This is more than just a collection of jokes. It is a chronicle of a vanishing empire, a portrait of a generation, and a new look at one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century.
A book for researchers, students of philology, and anyone who wants to see Kafka in his full form—not only as a genius of the absurd, but as a living, laughing person.
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