R. Crumb's Kafka

R. Crumb's Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781596878129.

Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumbs Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumbs Kafka is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumbs art is filled with Kafkas insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsas sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advocates nurse Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant―drawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexuality―that Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb.