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The Metamorphosis
 

The Metamorphosis

by Peter Kuper, Franz Kafka

A brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug.

Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a kinetic illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Kuper’s electric drawings—where American cartooning meets German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a... (read more)

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Shini
  • Rated 5 stars

“Everyone at sometime or another has felt that their job belittles them, takes their identity away and turns them into something less than human and worthless. All these things happen literally to the protagonist of this story!”

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  • Joe Girard

    joe girard said:

    “Like all the best fiction (and surreal fiction, especially) Kafka's famous short story begins with a seemingly obvious metaphor, and takes it down a seemingly obvious path. If you were to describe the exoskeleton of the story most people would say, "Oh yeah. Guy wakes up as bug. Can't change back. I can see why the family would loathe that, want rid of it." But, again, like all good fiction, The Metamorphosis has so many branching details, like veins off the main stem of a leaf, that aren't readily relevant to the main theme, and seem to exist for their own purpose. Take, for example, the three roomers that the family eventually invites in at the end of the story. What do they mean to Samsa's alienation from his family? What do they provide the family with once Samsa has perished? There are numerous such plot points that expand and flesh out Kafka's far greater moral message.

    Peter Kuper understands the affect of an image almost as divinely as a Kurusawa or a Hitchcock. He knows just how to organize his images, and weave his text around the page that makes it a uniquely graphic novel telling of Kafka's work. The graphic novel artists who understand how and why their medium is seperate from regular comicbooks are in the minority. And Kuper is among them.”

    posted Tuesday, January 29 2008
  • Gigi d

    gigi d said:

    “great book......that's what's happening to people now..;we're turning into cockroaches....”

    posted Monday, December 3 2007
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