Introducing Kafka
By: David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb
Contributors: Crumb, R
Publisher: Totem Books, Icon Books; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by National Book Network
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924
Description: "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 brought to this tradition was, however, 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 before admiring crowds."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "The introducing series from Totem"--P. [2] of cover