Franz Kafka, Author , read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6
Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major influence on 20th-century literature. These recordings, originally produced for CBC Radio's Booktime
series, have a special significance since they
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Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook. Quirk, $12.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59474-503-4
Gregor Samsa wakes up as an adorable kitten, and Kafka's famously surreal story becomes even more brain breaking. Samsa's fate is especially poignant, and his family's treatment of him is all the more inhumane, now that he's cute and furry. Cook (a...
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Franz Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz, and Jaromír 99. Abrams/Self Made Hero, $22.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-906838-67-6
Kafka never finished The Castle, his final novel. What he did complete is a vision of a relentlessly dystopian realm where people waste lives in service of a faceless, inhuman bureaucracy whose purpose is obscure, if indeed a purpose exists at all....
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Franz Kafka, Author, Peter Kuper, Author, Peter Kuper, Illustrator , adapted by Peter Kuper. Crown $18 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4795-6
Kuper has adapted short works by Kafka into comics before, but here he tackles the most famous one of all: the jet-black comedy that ensues after the luckless Gregor Samsa turns into a gigantic bug. The story loses a bit in translation (and the...
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Franz Kafka, Author, Chantal Montellier, Illustrator, David Zane Mairowitz, Translator . Sterling $14.95 (119p) ISBN 978-1-4114-1591-1
In Kafka’s famed story, bank clerk Joseph K is arrested for a crime that didn’t take place and put on a trial that never occurs. This faithful graphic novel adaptation depicts not just the comical, nightmarish and absurdist themes...
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Franz Kafka, Author, Kafka, Author, Jules Feiffer, Author Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56163-125-4
Kuper (Stripped: An Autobiography in Comics) has taken on Kafka's eerily engaging short tales and captured both an impressive degree of Kafka's personal brand of existential dread, and his pervasive aura of extreme psychic alienation. In the...
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Franz Kafka, selected by Reiner Stach and trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2801-5
This delightful collection features dozens of untitled fragments, false starts, and unfinished work by Kafka, found and chosen by biographer Stach. In mostly untitled pieces, ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, readers will find aphorisms
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