David Zane Mairowitz Book order (chronological)

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.

The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elu

Adaptace Chantal Montellierová a David Mairowitz. Proces, slavný Kafkův román skvěle adaptovaný do komiksové podoby, je ponurým příběhem prokuristy Josefa K., kterému v den jeho třicátých narozenin vniknou do bytu dva neznámí muži a zatknou ho pro neznámé provinění. Ze začátku pokládá celou věc za nedorozumění, ale postupně poznává zkorumpovanost a nepostižitelnost soudu, jehož případy uzavírá pouze smrt obžalovaného. Kafkův portrét byrokratického soukolí, které drtí životy svých občanů, je dnes bohužel stejně aktuální jako v době svého zrodu. Jednomu nakonec nezbývá než smířit s poměry. Hlavně nevzbudit pozornost! Držet jazyk za zuby, i kdyby to člověku bylo hodně proti srsti! Pochopit, že ten velký soudní organismus setrvává věčně ve stavu pružné rovnováhy.

Retells the classic story of a murderer and the psychological punishment he endures before he finally comes to trial, in graphic novel format.

"What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself." Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall." Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. What he added to this tradition was an almost unbearably expanded consciousness. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings, and primarily from his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a dog, a mole or a circus artiste who starves himself to death in front of admiring crowds. David Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations and comic panels of the world's greatest cartoonist, Robert Crumb (himself no stranger to self-loathing and alienation), help us to understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliché "Kafkaesque," peering through Kafka's glass wall like no other book before it. The book is a wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, including a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb."--Back cover