Introducing (Icon Books): Introducing Kafka (Paperback)

from antao

Of course I do not know what would fix human beings individually or collectively, but of one thing I am fairly certain, that humans individually add up to the collective and that humans individually are way too stupid for our own good, and I suspect there will be possible genetic solutions to tha...

from BenTreat

Crumb's drawings are great. Mairowitz doesn't include any sources for his claims, which weakens the text. A foreword or afterword referring to significant scholarly influences on his interpretation might have been helpful; even a "for further reading" bibliography would have bee nice. Instead, I ...

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

In which celebrated cartoonist Crumb presents a graphic novel-style biography of the father of avant-garde fiction, together with a few mashups of scenes from the fiction. This is an interesting project, though, personally, I'd just as soon let Kafka and my head create my own pictures.

from bibliosk8er

Great read. Great art. I dug.

from ValerieAndBooks

In Kafka, Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz presents author Franz Kafka -- himself and a discussion of his works -- in graphic novel format.  I picked this volume up in a used bookstore thinking that it would be interesting. It was. I don't know much about Kafka beyond one work (The Trial) th...