Cover: Robert Crumb

Introducing Kafka #[nn]

Jan 1993 · Totem Books · 10.95 USD

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This volume from Totem Books' Introducing series offers a graphic guide to the life and work of Franz Kafka, exploring his major stories, novels, and the existential themes that define his legacy. Through illustrated panels and accessible text, it examines Kafka's personal struggles, his relationship with his father, and the cultural context of early 20th-century Prague that shaped his unique literary voice.

"Golem" introduces a strikingly personal take on Franz Kafka’s legacy, with Robert Crumb delivering a hand-lettered title page that pairs a pen-and-ink sketch of a young Kafka with the book’s name and author credits. The intimate, handcrafted aesthetic sets a distinctive tone, grounded in Crumb’s unmistakable style, while the publisher’s name appears in clean type below.

Contains 9 stories

Golem

3.5 pp · Biography, Fantasy, History, Religious

Script Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalelthe Prague Golem

The Judgment

7 pp · Drama, Domestic

Georg BendemannGeorg's father

Metamorphosis

17 pp · Drama, Humor, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals, Domestic, Fantasy, Religious

Gregor SamsaGrete SamsaMother SamsaFather Samsathe Samsa home's lodgers

The Burrow

2 pp · Animal

The Burrow

In the Penal Colony

10 pp · Drama, Horror-Suspense

A TravelerThe Officer

The Trial

8 pp · Drama, Horror-Suspense

Josef K.

The Castle

16 pp · Drama, Horror-Suspense

K.OlgaFriedaKlammPepi

Leni in The Trial

4 pp · Drama

LeniJosef K.

A Hunger Artist

10 pp · Drama, Horror-Suspense, Satire-Parody

The Hunger Artist

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Full credits

writer Franz Kafka

writer, artist, inker, letterer Robert Crumb

writer David Zane Mairowitz

cover pencils, inks Robert Crumb

Reprints

Reprinted in Kafka kurz und knapp #[nn] (1995), Kafka #[nn] (1996), Kafka #[nn] (1996), R. Crumb's Kafka #[nn] (2004), Kafka #[nn] (2007), Kafka #[nn] (2013), Kafka: en introduktion #[nn]

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