Artefacts on display in Oxford next month show the ‘humorous insights’ of a writer best known for his nightmarish stories
As Franz Kafka awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into … a funny guy, actually.
The Prague-born writer, who died a century ago on 3 June, aged 40, is less renowned for his humour in novels and stories such as The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle, and more for his nightmares of ordinary people trapped in impenetrable bureaucratic mazes.
