Kafkaesque Fourteen Stories [Hardcover]

[Kuper] does what I love. Jazz. This book is a series of riffs, visual improvisations on short takes by the old master. It becomes a diverting, even daring, high-wire act, where Kafkas stoic Euro-alienation meets and merges with Kupers thoroughly American rock-and-roll alienation.Brilliant&. The Kafkaesque humor is intact, even enhanced.Kafka's work is opaque and ripe for reinterpretation, but it is Kuper's art that makes it so fresh.Woe to the reader who tries to skim Kafkaesque&. [Kupers] faux woodcuts, with their explosive faces and grim chiaroscuro, cannot be easily digested  a supreme virtue.Kafkas timeless work has never hit so hard, nor more artfully.In distilling Kafka's timeless themes, Kuper creates stark panels of disturbing truth and powerful warning.Kuper proves adept at using the synergy between text and image to both expand Kafkas ideas and trim his word counts& A richly innovative interpretation that honors the source while expanding the material.A gorgeously illustrated collection that makes tales written nearly a century ago feel vibrant and vital.Kafka has found a perfect interpreter in Peter Kuper.Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuperpresents a mesmerizing interpretationof fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.