Introducing Kafka: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)
David Zane Mairowitz
Robert Crumb
UK £6.99,Canada $12.50,
UK Publication November 2011
ISBN 9781848313033
Paperback
Page Extent 176
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Compact INTRODUCING guide to the great twentieth-century author.
'What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.' Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a 'glass wall'.
Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. What he brought to this tradition was an almost unbearably expanded consciousness. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings, and primarily from his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a dog, a mole or a circus artiste who starves himself to death in front of admiring crowds.
David Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations of the world's greatest underground comic artist, Robert Crumb, help us to see beyond the cliché 'Kafkaesque' and to peer through the glass wall at the unique creature on display there.
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'Goes far beyond explication or popularization or survey – a work of art in its own right.' Amazon.com
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David Zane Mairowitz's plays for radio are produced in over twenty countries, and his radiophonic opera, The Voluptuous Tango, won the Prix Italia Special Prize and the Sony Prize in 1997. Another play, In the Crocodile Swamp, won the Prix Europa in 2005.See more books by: David Zane Mairowitz
Robert Crumb is the creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural and other legendary cartoon figures. He is one of the pioneers of American underground comics and his work has been celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
See more books by: Robert Crumb
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Other editions / related titles:
Introducing Philosophy
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