Franz Kafka - The Drawings

Franz Kafka: The Drawings / ISBN 9780300260663 / 368-page hardcover, 8.25 x 11 inches, recently published by Yale *** 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 fasci