Name: Franz Kafka: The Drawings
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Author: Judith Butler
ISBN: 9780300260663

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andreas Kilcher

Pavel Schmidt

Contributions by

Judith Butler

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

29.9 x 21.4 x 3.3 cm

Weight

1.95 kg.

ISBN13

9780300260663

Synopsis "Franz Kafka: The Drawings "

The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings "The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves."--Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review "A sensational new book [that] reveals these hitherto hidden artworks for the first time. . . . This valuable volume allows us to see how, for Kafka, word and image walk arm in arm."--Benjamin Balint, Jewish Review of Books 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 raisonné 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.

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Judith Pamela Butler is a neo-materialist and post-structuralist Jewish-American philosopher who has dedicated herself to studying the fields of feminism, political philosophy, and ethics, and has been one of the foundational theorists of queer theory

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