Franz Kafka : the drawings / edited by Andreas Kilcher, in collaboration with Pavel Schmidt ; with essays by Judith Butler and Andreas Kilcher ; translations from the German by Kurt Beals.
Includes bibliographical references. First published in Germany by C.H. Beck Verlag.
Contents:
Introduction: Catalogue raisonné / Pavel Schmidt. The drawings -- Kafka's drawing and writing / Andreas Kilcher -- "But what ground? what wall?": Kafka's sketches of bodily life / Judith Butler -- Catalogue raisonné / Pavel Schmidt.
Summary:
"The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) were found in a private collection that for decades had been kept under lock and key. Until now, only a few of Kafka's drawings were widely known. Although Kafka is renowned for his written work, his drawings are evidence of what his literary executor Max Brod termed his "double talent." Irresistible and full of fascinating figures, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny, and the carnivalesque, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. Kafka's drawings span his full career, but he drew most intensively in his university years, between 1901 and 1907. An entire booklet of drawings from this period is among the many new discoveries, along with dozens of loose sheets. Published for the first time in English, these newly available materials are collected with his known works in a complete catalogue raisonnâe of more than 240 illustrations, reproduced in full color. Essays by Andreas Kilcher and Judith Butler provide essential background for this lavish volume, interpreting the drawings in their own right while also reconciling their place in Kafka's larger oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher.
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