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Franz Kafka: The Drawings 9780300260663 0
Author Language Publisher Pages Published Height Width
Andreas Kilcher, Pavel Schmidt EN Yale University Press 368 2022 29 cm 21 cm
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The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings

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 raisonne 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.

Author Andreas Kilcher, Pavel Schmidt
Language EN
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 368
Published 2022
Height 29 cm
Width 21 cm