Reich for Beginners

david-zane-mairowitz

Self-Help

Writers and Readers

Penguin Modern Stories 11

Literature & Fiction

KINGSLEY AMIS

R. Prawer Jhabvala

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>This brief but inclusive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, helps us understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliche "Kafkaesque."</p>"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 added 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 Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations and comic panels of the world's greatest cartoonist, Robert Crumb (himself no stranger to self-loathing and alienation), help us to understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliche "Kafkaesque," peering through Kafka's glass wall like no other book before it. The book is a wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, including a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb. Black-and-white comics throughout

Kafka

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Crumb

Arts & Literature

Kitchen Sink Pr

Kitchen Sink Press

First published in 1925, 'The Trial' is a classic story of totalitarianism, sadism, and hysteria. With a labyrinth of meanings, author Franz Kafka explored the darkness of the terror state.

The Trial (Eye Classics)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Selfmadehero

Intro to Camus (Intro To)

Metro_Books

<p>Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb's Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumb's Kafka is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view 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 Advocate's 'nurse' Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant―drawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexuality―that Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb.</p>

R. Crumb's Kafka

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