Jun 1, 2022 · Kafka’s drawings generally suggest human faces and figures with only a few strokes. The expressions and postures are not static, but often dynamic, sometimes leaning as if in motion, usually in profile, moving from right to left. Particularly typical subjects of these drawings include fencers, horseback riders, and dancers.

In this edition, the drawings of the inimitable Franz Kafka—author of groundbreaking literary works including The Trial, The Metamorphosis and The Castle— are brought to light, artworks which survive today thanks to Kafka’s friend Max Brod.

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May 16, 2022 · The drawings of Kafka, the majority of them never before seen, are published in Franz Kafka: The Drawings, edited by Andreas Kilcher and forthcoming from Yale University Press on 31 May.

Jul 3, 2022 · In Pictures: To Honor Franz Kafka’s Birthday, See His Drawings Once Hidden in a Swiss Bank Vault. Drawings by the literary legend have been published for the first time after a Kafka-esque journey.

May 26, 2022 · Though they appear in sketchbooks and in the margins of his travel diaries and letters and college notebooks, Franz Kafka’s drawings are neither “scribblings” (as he called them) nor...

Jun 9, 2022 · Franz Kafka: The Drawings, edited by Andreas Kilcher, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022; 368 pages, 240 color illustrations, $50 hardcover.

It tells the story of how Max Brod signed over legal possession of his personal memorabilia, including a collection of publicly unknown drawings by Kafka, to his secretary and clandestine partner Ilse Esther Hoffe as early as 1947; how Hoffe’s death in 2007 gave rise to a legal battle between her heirs and the State of Israel regarding legal ...

Apr 28, 2022 · Kilcher argues that the drawings represent ‘the last great unknown trove of Kafka’s works’, and in a long and detailed historical essay he outlines Kafka’s fascination with visual art – the university lectures he attended, the pictures he bought, the exhibitions he attended – and its influence on his writing.