Completely Kafka by Nicolas Mahler

Completely Kafka by Nicolas Mahler

The young Franz Kafka has too many fears to name. Mirrors, clothing, his own body, almost everything causes him to fret. How did this 'anxious and small bundle of bones' become one of the world's great writers? With telling details and sharply minimal illustrations, Nicolas Mahler tells a wickedly funny story of the development of Kafka's genius, offering a tribute that is as playful as it is profound.

"If you are Nicolas Mahler, the writer and illustrator of a short but engaging graphic biography of the man, you’d see [Kafka] as a sort of blob of hair and eyebrows on a stickThe illustrations of Completely Kafka may look rudimentary, but they work. In fact they’re similar in style to the doodles Kafka himself would make in his notebooks."
-- Spectator

"Much the best thing about the book are the charming black and white drawings. The best are the drawings of Kafka himself, drawn in thick brushstroke. Some are like cartoons, a few are more like Kafka’s own drawings, angular, isolated."
--Jewish Chronicle

Nicolas Mahler lives in Vienna, where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. His comic strips and cartoons have been published by leading German-language newspapers and magazines such as Die Zeit, NZZ am Sonntag and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. He is the author of several graphic adaptations of classic literature, including works by James Joyce, Thomas Bernhard and Marcel Proust. Mahler has received numerous awards for his work, including the Max-und-Moritz Prize for Best German-Language Comic Artist, the Preis der Literaturhäuser and the Sondermann Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781805331582
ISBN 10	1805331582
Title	Completely Kafka
Author	Nicolas Mahler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2024-05-23
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.