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From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein comes a brilliant graphic narrative that explores the pivotal year in Prague when Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived side by side from 1911 to 1912. Their lives intertwined in remarkable ways, reflecting their shared quest to address profound questions in a city rich with eccentricities. This narrative reveals how this unique period served as a crucial turning point for both men, vividly illustrated in Krimstein's distinctive style. For Einstein, this year was marked by challenges and setbacks that nearly led him to abandon his groundbreaking ideas, ultimately culminating in the insights that would define his General Theory of Relativity. Simultaneously, Kafka, through diligent diary entries, navigated his own creative struggles, resulting in his first masterpiece, The Judgment. By intertwining their journeys against the backdrop of Prague's complexities, the story highlights how both figures contributed to a modern reality where art and science converge in profound, transformative ways. Krimstein's work captures the essence of their innovations, illustrating how their time in Prague shaped their legacies and the course of modern thought.

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read"An Alma most anticipated book of NovemberFrom the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt , a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein’s new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII―found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar.These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them.In When I Grow Up , Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It’s as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents’ rediscovery.Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, and bursting with life, When I Grow Up reveals how the tragedy that is about to befall these young people could easily happen again, to any of us, if we don’t learn to listen to the voices from the past.

Roku 1933 uprchla Hannah Arendtová z nacistického Německa nejprve do Paříže, později do USA. Zde se stala jedním z nejvýznamnějších myslitelů své doby. Její pohnuté osudy ztvárnil kreslíř Ken Krimstein v oceňovaném komiksovém životopisu. V souladu s tezí Hanny Arendtové, podle níž myslet a žít spadá pro člověka vjedno, představuje Krimstein v pronikavých zkratkách hlavní motivy její filosofie, neopomíjí však ani filosofii Martina Heideggera nebo Waltera Benjamina. Ken Krimstein (* 1958) kreslí pro New Yorker, Punch, Wall Street Journal i jinde. Psal pro The New York Observer, New Yorker’s Diary a publikoval na online serverech, např. na McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast nebo Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Je autorem knihy o židovských karikaturistech Kvetch as Kvetch Can: Jewish Cartoons a učí na DePaul University a School of the Art Institute v Chicagu. Žije v Evanstonu ve státě Illinois. Tři životy Hanny Arendtové získaly cenu Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir a umístil se v užším výběru ceny National Jewish Book Awards. Časopisy Forbes a Comics Journal jej zařadily mezi nejlepší komiksy roku 2018.

Provides an illustrated biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, a hero of political thought, and a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and courageous woman. Her intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to insights into the human condition, and her experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times. --Adapted from publisher description