Franz Kafka: Ein Landarzt

The most colourful Kafka of all time - the new edition of volume 1 of the Kat Menschik series for the 100th Kafka anniversary
The first volume of Kafka's stories in Kat Menschik's magnificent interpretation: "Menschik has taken the texts themselves very seriously. (...) Illustrations like stage sets in which the story can play out in the reader's head," marvelled the
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marvelled at the publication of the first edition in 2016, and the full range of Menschik's skills is indeed assembled here: Finely and precisely drawn, with a very unique aesthetic that goes so far as to make even worms and maggots look eerily beautiful; and as different as the tone of each individual story in the volume, whether
A country doctor
,
In the gallery
,
Before the Law
or
Report for an Academy
Kafka's characters harbour dark secrets and are driven by strange destinies. Of course, it is anything but bloodless - just like Kat Menschik's blaze of colour.

Kafka's best-known stories - in the text form of the first edition from 1920 - were published eight years ago as volume 1 of Kat Menschik's now cult series. It is now being published in a new design to mark the 100th anniversary of Kafka's birth. Grandiose texts, the finest illustrations, unusual materials, surprising interpretations, three-page colour cut - a feast for the mind and senses and "an invitation to see Kafka anew" (
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