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Give It Up! And Other Short Stories
Nine paranoid tales by Franz Kafka adapted to stark, black-and-white comics by Peter Kuper, whose illustrations and covers appear regularly in the New York Times, Time and Business Week. More than just straight adaptations, these clever interpretations of Kafka's tales bring out the dark humor latent in Kafka's work, better known for its despair and somberness. Heralded by...more
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
January 1st 2003
by NBM Publishing
(first published 1995)
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This was my introduction to Kafka... I, too, can't believe it. For about a year now I have had a bit of a crush on graphic novel adaptations of classic lit. -- an odd little subgenre of the GN which aims, as Jules Feiffer writes in the introduction to this here book, "to upgrade the image of comic art by cross-dressing it with culturally significant heavyweights." Perhaps my clandestine literary pretensions are peaking through every time I pick up a GN "written by" Shakespea...more
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Some of the adaptations here are brilliant, like The Bridge or The Trees. Most of the others are quite good, and some were just OK. All in all, the book is well made, which can't be said for many comic adaptations of literature.
I am somewhat biased because I immensely enjoyed Robert Crumb's Kafka biography, so I will probably measure anything in that vein against it.
This comic could serve as a short introduction to Kafka because it conveys his stories' weirdness, covers a wid...more
I am somewhat biased because I immensely enjoyed Robert Crumb's Kafka biography, so I will probably measure anything in that vein against it.
This comic could serve as a short introduction to Kafka because it conveys his stories' weirdness, covers a wid...more
I wanted to know if they were literal translations. Translated to English, of course, but also to find out if they were abridged.
At the library, I checked out "Franz Kafka - Collected Stories."
The shortest are word for word and the longest (?) are very close.
Word for Word
A Little Fable
Give It Up
The Bridge
The Trees
The Top
The Vulture
Slightly Abridged
The Helmsman
Abridged
A Hunger A...more
At the library, I checked out "Franz Kafka - Collected Stories."
The shortest are word for word and the longest (?) are very close.
Word for Word
A Little Fable
Give It Up
The Bridge
The Trees
The Top
The Vulture
Slightly Abridged
The Helmsman
Abridged
A Hunger A...more
Really good interpretation of Kafka's style of storytelling. Peter Kuper illustrates a grim atmosphere, that is very fitting to Kafka's stories! I enjoyed this graphic novel, as I enjoy Kafka's work. My only complaint is that it is too short!!! The stories are very much abridged, but still gets the main point across.
What is better than depressing, deeply agonizing, and strikingly revealing than Kafka? it is Kafka in comics! This isn't your usual "novel-turned-into-graphic novel" affair, this is the artists interpretation of some of kafka's short stories. The result is shock and beauty. If you're into the kafkaesque, pick this up and enjoy it :)
Hmm. All I can say is too little Kafka. More like an experiment than a finished piece.
I really liked the artist's interpretations of the Kafka's short stories. Very cool.
one of my favourite graphic novelists and one of my favourite writers in one short book is amazing! Kuper's drawings are so fitting for the writings of Kafka. it was very enjoyable and dark at the same time.
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Another great adaptation by Kuper! My only complaint would be its length. Some of the re-tellings are a little too short.
beautiful drawings, and so oddly thrilling to see kafka's stories alive in graphic form.
i liked the illustrations - the stories .... I just didnt get them I guess. oh well
Tastefully done.
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Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: [ˈfʀants ˈkafka]) was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria–Hungary. His unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously—is considered to be among the most influential in Western lite...more
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