"Introducing Camus" portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football, and theater were the answer to life's absurdity.[...]
""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...""" "These words, among the most famous opening lines in all literature, instantly transport readers into the turbulent world of the French Revolution. Dickens's historical novel is one of the best-loved works of all time, and this illustrated [...]
"And, in the dark, a thought came to me that no one had ever had before me: I wanted to kill someone, just in order to dare." This graphic adaptation of "Crime and Punishment" masterfully illuminates Dostoevsky's psychological thriller. Acclaimed French artist Alain Korkos vividly brings to life the[...]
Robert Crumb's 'Kafka' is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could.[...]
Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the world was 'absurd', without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Long associated with Left[...]
After 18 years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr Manette is reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men - an exiled French aristocrat and a disreputable, but brilliant, English lawyer - become joined through their love for Lucie Manette. From tranquil London, the action move[...]
"Noen måtte ha baktalt Josef K, for en morgen, uten å ha gjort noe galt, ble han plutselig arrestert." Slik begynner en av 1900-tallets store litterære klassikere. Prosessen, som her er gjenskapt som tegneserieroman, er den dystre fortellingen om Josef K, som en morgen blir arrestert av uforklarl[...]
"Hvad har jeg tilfælles med en jøde? Jeg har ikke en gang noget tilfælles med mig selv." Intet kan bedre udtrykke essensen hos Franz Kafka, en mand der levede som "bag en glasvæg".
Kafka var en af dette århundredes mest intense og klarsynede forfattere. Han skrev i traditionen fra d[...]
Kafka - en helt fantastisk bok om Franz Kafka i form av en 175 sidor lång tecknad serie av mästaren Robert Crumb i samarbete med David Zane Mairowitz. En bok om Kafkas liv och verk. Vi guidas omkring i hans värld, vi får se episoder i hans liv spelas upp, insupa hans vardag i Prag, stiga in i ha[...]