‘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. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings, and even his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away. This fantastic introduction reveals the dark humour in Kafka as well as the paranoid side he is better known…
This book is indeed a great introduction to Franz Kafka. Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, Introducing Kafka is the perfect starting point for those new to Kafka and a perfect next step for those who have read him for years. Robert Crumb’s idiosyncratic illustrations add a new dimension to the already idiosyncratic world of Kafka. Includes adaptations of “The Judgment,” “Th…
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 texbook never could! R. CRUMB’S KAFKA goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey. It’s a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his worldv…
Robert Crumb’s comic book of Genesis is kind of cool.
The artist, Robert Crumb, is famous for his satirical and some might say genuinely perverse humor and art as seen in many underground and above ground comics. So it may come as a surprise that he has done a serious comic book version of Genesis, and it’s pretty good.
It took him five years to adapt in art, all 50 chapters. His painstaking research never intrudes on the delights of the reading experience. It maybe his “Sistine Chapel comic.
For humanity and pathos, Adam and Eve, all the stories of Genesis and a great look at God, Robert Crumb’s Genesis deserves a place on your coffee table and book shelf.
(W/A) Robert Crumb The eagerly awaited graphic work retells the first book of the Bible in a profoundly honest way. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations, R. Crumb, using the actual text work for work, has imagined the Bible as it really was. First serialized in The New Yorker, this graphic work is now available in a collected edition. Also available in a Limited Hardcover Edi…
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