COMPLETELY KAFKA
COMPLETELY KAFKA
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having taken an interest in the Japanese special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya in,
Lewis Caroll, or even the work of Thomas Bernard, Nicolas Mahler tackles
another monument of European literature: Franz Kafka. With humor and
irreverence, the designer takes us on a journey through the life and work of
the author of The Trial, who died exactly one hundred years ago. In it, we come across: the
An imposing and angry father figure, Felice Bauer was twice engaged to
Kafka, Max Brod the lifelong friend, an ambitious guidebook collection project
travel, literary critics with lukewarm enthusiasm, mice
singers, or even Kafka's ambiguous relationship with drawing - he, whose work
graphic was also revealed to the public a few years ago. Playing
Skillfully using the image of the writer angry with life, Nicolas Mahler makes
to dialogue the excerpts of texts with absurd and delightful sketches,
thus reviving, in the form of a character with the silhouette
trembling, Franz Kafka, prolific author, who lived to write as one
breathe to live.
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