Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. CRUMB'S KAFKA is a vibrant biography that looks at this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland texbook never could! R. CRUMB'S KAFKA goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey. It's a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his worldview without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumb's art is filled with Kafka's insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsa's sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advacate's "nurse" Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant-drawn in that mixture of self-commandtantalizing knowingness, and sly sexuality, that amazonian randines and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb. . Crumb's idiosyncratic illustrations add a new dimension to the already idiosyncratic world of Kafka. Includes adaptations of "The Judgment," "The Trial," "The Castle," "A Hunger Artist," and "The Metamorphosis."
Reader ReviewsCrumb's work here is copious and fine, but the serious Crumb collector should know that "R. Crumb's Kafka" is identical in every way (except for title and cover art) to "Introducing Kafka" (US, 1993), as is clearly stated on the new version's copyright page. The book was first published in the UK, in 1993, under the title "Kafka for Beginners."
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