David Trotter All of a Tremble: A Review of Hanns Zischler Kafka Goes to the Movies, trans. by Susan Gillespie, Chicago: 2003, London Review of Books, 4 March 2004, p. 28, 1914
". . . Karl Rossman, in The Man who Disappeared, escaping from the police, skids on one leg round a corner in a way that seems thoroughly Chaplinesque, and could just conceivably have been meant as such. Kafka had six chapters of the novel in draft by December 1912, and resumed work on it in autumn 1914; Chaplin's tramp took shape in Kid Auto Races at Venice, a Keystone comedy released on 7 February 1914 . . . "