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內容簡介 Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuperpresents a mesmerizing interpretationof fourteen iconic Kafka short stories. Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master�s dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper�s style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka�s tales. Working from new translations of the classic texts, Kuper has reimagined these iconic stories for the twenty-first century, using setting and perspective to comment on contemporary issues like civil rights and homelessness.Longtime lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper�s innovative interpretations, while Kafka novices will discover a haunting introduction to some of the great writer�s most beguiling stories, including "A Hunger Artist," "In The Penal Colony," and "The Burrow." Kafkaesque stands somewhere between adaptation and wholly original creation, going beyond a simple illustration of Kafka�s words to become a stunning work of art.
