Research Catalog

Title

R. Crumb's Kafka / art by Robert Crumb ; script by David Zane Mairowitz.

Author

Mairowitz, David Zane, 1943-

Publication

New York : Ibooks : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2004, c1993.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Crumb, R.

Description

175 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Combines illustrated biographical details with a visual adaptation of some of the great Czech writer's works in a volume that includes graphic novel renditions of The Judgment, The Trial, The Castle, A Hunger Artist, and The Metamorphosis. 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 goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey it 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.

Uniform Title

Kafka for beginners

Alternative Title

• Kafka for beginners
• Crumb's Kafka
• Kafka

Subject

• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 > Caricatures and cartoons
• 1900-1999
• Authors, Austrian > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• caricatures.
• Caricatures.
• Biographies
• Caricatures and cartoons
• Caricatures
• Biographies.

Note

• "Previously published as Introducing Kafka"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0743493443 (pbk.)

LCCN

9780743493444

OCLC

• 57228634
• SCSB-12733617

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library