Kafka by R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

"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, help us to understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliché "Kafkaesque,". "-- Back cover.

Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Year:	2007
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781560978060
Condition:	Good
Description:	Slight soiling to page edges.

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SKU: 1603890
Location: Graphic Novels