Wie ein Hund

In Wie ein Hund, Danijel Žeželj adapts Franz Kafka’s unfinished short story “The Burrow” into a stark, atmospheric graphic novel, published by avant-verlag in 2024. With Henrike Markert contributing to the writing, Žeželj’s haunting black-and-white art visualizes the paranoid, subterranean world of a creature obsessively constructing and defending its labyrinthine home. This single-issue work distills Kafka’s existential dread into a visceral, wordless or near-wordless visual experience, offering a fresh, contemporary take on a classic text. It matters as a striking example of European literary adaptation in comics, showcasing Žeželj’s singular, expressionistic style.