Дэвид Зейн Мейровиц — новинки

Личность Франца Кафки окутана множеством загадок и мифов. Его произведения, пронизанные абсурдом и страхом перед внешним миром и высшим авторитетом, способны пробуждать в читателе соответствующие тревожные чувства. Почему автор создавал такие произведения, какие демоны вели его по жизни и как он с ними боролся? Первый графический роман-биография в стиле нуар откроет самые потаенные уголки души писателя. Узнайте больше о гении величайшего писателя!

"Someone must have been slandering Joseph K, because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was suddenly arrested."

The Trial is a graphic adaptation of Franz Kafka's famous novel, illustrated by one of France's leading graphic artists, Chantal Montellier. Montellier brilliantly captures both the menace and the humor of Kafka's utterly unique masterwork. This darkly humorous tale follows Joseph K, who is arrested one morning for unexplained reasons and forced to struggle against an absurd judicial process. K finds himself thrown from one disorientating encounter to the next as he becomes increasingly desperate to prove his innocence in the face of unknown charges. In its stark portrayal of an authoritarian bureaucracy trampling over the lives of its estranged citizens, The Trial is as relevant today as ever.

"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, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall." Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. What he added to this tradition was an almost unbearably expanded consciousness. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings, and primarily from his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a dog, a mole or a circus artiste who starves himself to death in front of admiring crowds. David Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations and comic panels of the world's greatest cartoonist, Robert Crumb (himself no stranger to self-loathing and alienation), help us to understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliche "Kafkaesque," peering through Kafka's glass wall like no other book before it. The book is a wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, including a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb.

В популярной форме, с обилием рисунков описаны эпизоды биографии, истоки и основные особенности мировоззрения чешского еврея Франца Кафки (1883-1924), который прославился на весь мир своими удивительными литературными произведениями.