World Famous Comics: Give It Up! And Other Stories Kafka: And Other Short Stories by Franz Kafka
Give It Up! And Other Stories Kafka: And Other Short Stories by Franz Kafka
By: Franz Kafka Publisher: ComicsLit Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: ComicsLit Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 63 Publication Date: 2005-11
On top of a very large heap Far from any critical review, this is one of the very finest pieces of graphic novel/adaptation out there, despite the ramblings of self-confessed morons. If you love the great literature of Kafka and are wary of its trivialization through graphic adaptation, I humbly request that you give this book a try. I agree with another reviewer's comment that this book is superior to Kuper's other Kafka adaptation "The Metamorphosis". For more Komic Kafka, see Crumb's Introducing Kafka, and Chantal Montellier's adaptation of "The Trial", both works adapted by David Mairowitz, and both are excellent.
better than kuper's metamorphosis dear reader, i warmly invite you to take up the brilliant improvisational artistic renderings that peter kuper offers up to franz kafka's more illusory and difficult fables and fantastic tales. at the time of writing, the sole other reviewer has noted the difficulty of the kafka stories selected for this publication. while i refuse to claim they are "simple", the beautiful aspect of this publication is the kuper renders them utterly readable through his interpretation / illustration / illumination and, furthermore, *comprehensible* by his graphic adaptation. it's a far more rewarding read, and more profound graphically, than the seemingly more popular kuper adaptation of kafka's "metamorphosis". i'm a huge peter kuper fan, and simultaneously a kafka reader. do not expect less-difficult kafka (after all, it's still kafka). expect a more-accessible kafka. brilliantly rendered. one for the ages (all ages). this isn't a comic book. it's the perfect example of a graphic "novel".
What? I'm on a graphic novel kick and saw "Kafka" in the title. What's not to like? Just about everything.
I felt incredibly dumb reading this book. The stories are short parables about, um, something. I loved the stark BW graphics, but could make neither head nor tales from the stories. The first one ("A Little Fable")is about a mouse running in a maze (the corporate rat race, maybe?) who in the end faces a cheese-laden trap. A cat peering over the edge of the maze says, "You only need to change your direction." Then eats the mouse. This take place on 4 pages.
Other short takes involve a man-shaped bridge, A man asking directions from a cop, an insane murderer and a "hunger artist" living in a cage at the zoo.
OK, I'm a moron. I don't get it and don't care to try. The stories are either incredibly deep or incredibly pointless. If you're a Kafka fanatic, these illustrations of his work might appeal to you. For everyone else, give it up.
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