Every Fall semester I teach Kafka’s Metamorphosis as part of the Twentieth Century literature course for seniors at Ave Maria University. I compare it with two other “nightmare” visions of reality, Chesterton’s Man Who was Thursday and Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist. In putting Kafka on trial and discovering that the poor traits of Joyce’s artist indicate that he is dead, alas, we can see more clearly that Chesterton, by comparison, is truly a man alive (the plethora of puns were intended!).

Considering my annual engagement with Kafka’s weird and surreal world, I found this satire particularly funny:   http://www.theonion.com/video/pragues-franz-kafka-international-named-worlds-mos,14321/