Give It Up! (comics)
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Give It Up! is a comics adaptation of nine short stories by Franz Kafka
drawn by Peter Kuper
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In the introduction, by Jules Feiffer
, Kuper's adaptations are described as "riffs, visual improvisations."
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
drawn by Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator known for his autobiographical, social, and political observations.-Early life:...
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In the introduction, by Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...
, Kuper's adaptations are described as "riffs, visual improvisations."
The Stories
- A Little FableA Little Fable"A Little Fable" is a short story written by Franz Kafka between 1917 and 1923. The anecdote, only one paragraph in length, was not published in Kafka's lifetime Ω and first appeared in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer .-Plot:...
- The Bridge
- Give It Up!
- A Hunger ArtistA Hunger Artist"A Hunger Artist" , also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in Die Neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist published by Verlag Die Schmiede soon after Kafka's death...
- A FratricideA Fratricide"A Fratricide" is a short story by Franz Kafka written between December 1916 and January 1917. It is one of Kafka's most realistically descriptive and graphically violent stories which tells the story of a murderer, Schmar, and his victim, Wese...
- The Helmsman
- The TreesContemplation (Kafka)Contemplation, or Meditation is a sequence of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. Eight of these stories were published under the same title in the bimonthly Hyperion and were Kafka's first publication. Some of the stories are also included, in whole or in part, in...
- The Top
- The Vulture