2022.06.10 Yale Professor Paul North and others on Kafka’s Drawings скачать в хорошем качестве

2022.06.10 Yale Professor Paul North and others on Kafka’s Drawings

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. This new book from Yale University Press, Franz Kafka: The Drawings, is the first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings. 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 fascinating figures, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny, and the carnivalesque, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. Published for the first time in English, these newly available materials are collected with his known works in a complete catalogue raisonné of more than 240 illustrations, reproduced in full color. On June 10, Andreas Kilcher, editor of this new groundbreaking book, provides essential background for this lavish volume, interpreting the drawings in their own right while also reconciling their place in Kafka’s larger oeuvre. He is joined by Paul North, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale, who writes and teaches frequently on Kafka, for a discussion of these newly discovered and published drawings.