The Comedy of Kafka

Kafka drew directly from the Yiddish theater that use of physical comic exaggeration, and that's also everywhere in this kind of theatrical, almost slapstick physical comedy. And I mentioned someone farting so loudly, it's hard to understand what they're saying, or something. That's a perfect example of where Broad needed to elevate Kafka, you know, above the human and the bodily that it wasn't acceptable for Kafka to be even registering other people's farts and his diaries. He was into natural health and things like that. One of the most homoerotic passages is written in that same sanatorium where he's to beautiful Swedish boys with long legs that are so