A comic biography
To mark Franz Kafka's memorial year 2024, the Goethe-Institut is organizing the poster exhibition KOMPLETT KAFKA in cooperation with the artist Nicolas Mahler and the Literaturhaus Stuttgart.
Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: “I was once a great draughtsman,” he wrote half ironically, half proudly to his long-term fiancée Felice Bauer in 1913 about his artistic ambitions. His drawing had once given him “more satisfaction than anything else”. So what could be more fitting than to honor him with a comic biography on his anniversary? And then by Nicolas Mahler, who has a similarly minimalist drawing style?
Mahler presents Kafka's life and work in an inimitably witty and poignant way and does not shy away from the really big questions: Why did Kafka's plan to write a series of cheap travel guides fail? Who wrote the sequel to one of his most important works, “The Remetamorphosis of Gregor Samsa”? And what was the “white slave” all about? The answers and much more can be found in KOMPLETT KAFKA. (Source: Suhrkamp Verlag)
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