![]() It examined the life and works of writer Franz Kafka, confidant of the Absurd and Stranger in Everyland. Kafka was an impressively informative graphic novel. “Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.” ![]() I thought it was great to revisit Kafka through Crumb's visions of Kafka, especially. Two American Jews, Crumb and Mairowitz, both superb artists, the latter doing the words, the former the visuals, tell their story about a European Jew, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, that had a profound effect on them and Jews and non-Jews (like me) everywhere. Still, if you love the tortured, anguished Kafka as I always have, it's a great short reminder about his great works and their relationship to his life, bolstered by the wonderful art of Crumb, who knows something of anguish and self-loathing and family dysfunction. A straightforward telling of a life is not today as interesting a way to go or philosophically as supported as it once was. Kafka himself wouldn't have done a memoir this way, and neither would Crumb. Mairowitz provides enough detail about his life to satisfy your biographical need (what was he really like?!) without being too pithy and reductive. I really liked this book, this time, and yes,need to read all of Kafka again soon.ġ0/27/14: This is kind of a typical, straightforward, get-to-the-heart-of-him sort of literary/critical biography about the relationship between Kafka's life and writing. Sexuality was completely not available for him for reasons that are not completely clear. He may have loved one woman-Milena-and possibly a second, Dora. I also didn't talk about his completely dysfunctional relationship with women (maybe his mother and sister were exceptions, as refuges for him). What I didn't talk about below is how incredibly neurotic he was, and depressive, suicide-obsessed, and so driven to self-loathing that he imagined himself and/or his main characters as turning into-not just the bug of The Metamorphisis-but various creatures. I wanted to see again what Mairowitz thought of this relationship, and he confirms for me what Greta believes that his relationship with his father was entirely abusive, and was the key (hateful) relationship informing everything he wrote. Si les gusta este tipo de libros no duden en comprarlo, porque valen mucho la pena.ĩ/26/17 I re-read this because of Greta, with whom I (slightly) disagreed about Kafka's letter to his father. Agrego algunas fotos para que tengan una idea de lo buenas que son. Įn el caso de esta, creo que las ilustraciones, que son dignas de la obra de Kafka y que representan gráficamente la esencia del autor hubieran sido realmente apreciadas por él. Copio el link para quien pueda conseguirla porque está ilustrada de manera exquisita en donde Poe aparece siempre con cabeza de cuervo. Una de las cosas más gratas que puede haber para un lector que admira profundamente a un escritor es encontrarse con biografías realmente apasionantes en las que uno descubre los costados más desconocidos de estos grandes genios de la literatura mundial.Įn mi caso, me gusta mucho buscar biografías que realmente me aporten satisfacción, orgullo y alegría de esta manera fui consiguiendo muchas, algunas de ellas, valiosas o difíciles de encontrar.Įsta biografía está escrita por el estadounidense David Zane Mairowitz conjuntamente con el afamado ilustrador Robert Crumb, debo reconocer que es maravillosa, en primer lugar porque mientras uno la lee, comparte datos de la vida del genial autor checo como de sus obras más importantes.Īlgo similar sucede con una que tengo de Poe, escrita por el autor español Jordi Sierra i Fabra e ilustrada por Alberto Vázquez. David Zane Mairowitz’s facing biographical text is also quite informative. Still, this book presents many wonderful, heavily hatched, Indian ink illustrations of some of his most famous works, such as Letter to the Father, several of his Stories, The Missing Person, The Trial, and The Castle. Kafka was both a tormented and a zany character, and Crumb, also zany and tormented, manages to convey these two aspects of his personality very convincingly, with touches of humour and eroticism.Īlso, Crumb doesn’t transpose any of Kafka’s stories or novels into comic form in their entirety. So, don’t expect an embalmed or hagiographic picture of the Czech author. The most exciting thing about this volume is that it brings together an unexpected couple: Kafka and Robert Crumb, one of the last decades’ most captivating and iconoclastic graphic artists. This comic book aims at making Kafka more accessible and inspiring. And for that reason, many readers deny themselves one of the most extraordinary experiences literature can offer. Indeed, Kafka has a reputation for being both impenetrable and disturbing. The works of Franz Kafka can be intimidating-even though none has the gigantism of Joyce’s or Proust’s novels.
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