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Introducing Kafka, also known as R. Crumb's Kafka, is an illustrated biography of Franz Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb. The book includes comic adaptations of some of Kafka's most famous works including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and The Judgment, as well as brief sketches of his three novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika. The book also details Kafka's biography in a format that is part illustrated essay, part sequential comic panels.
The book focuses on the biographical details of Kafka's life, interspersed with illustrated vignettes from his writing. The author relates Kafka's personality and various incidents in his life to the composition of his stories. For example, Kafka's complicated relationship with his family is linked to stories where the main character is an animal – notably The Metamorphosis, whose protagonist, Gregor Samsa, awakens to find himself transformed into a giant bug, and becomes a burden on his family.
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Kafka kurz und knapp
1999-10, Zweitausendeins
Hardcover
in German
- 5. Auflage
3861501171 9783861501176
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Introducing Kafka
1994, Totem Books, Icon Books, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by National Book Network
in English
1874166099 9781874166092
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"Originally published as Kafka for beginners in 1993 by Icon Books...Cambridge"--T.p. verso.
"Mature readers"--Back cover.
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