Really good interpretation of Kafka's style of storytelling. Peter Kuper illustrates a grim atmosphere, that is very fitting to Kafka's stories! I enjoyed this graphic novel, as I enjoy Kafka's work. My only complaint is that it is too short!!! The stories are very much abridged, but still gets the main point across.

Excellent collection of nine short stories of Kafka placed in graphic art. As the texts are already filled, adapting them in another form of artistic expression already becomes a challenge.Some of the stories collected in this selection for me are of the best of this author: Little Fable, The Vulture and The Hunger Artist, for example.It is difficult to graphically adapt texts with so many metaphors and not fall deeply into the caricature and the abyss of misunderstanding or lack of subliminal i...

This was my introduction to Kafka... I, too, can't believe it. For about a year now I have had a bit of a crush on graphic novel adaptations of classic lit. -- an odd little subgenre of the GN which aims, as Jules Feiffer writes in the introduction to this here book, "to upgrade the image of comic art by cross-dressing it with culturally significant heavyweights." Perhaps my clandestine literary pretensions are peaking through every time I pick up a GN "written by" Shakespeare, Kafka, or, uh, Ri...

The introduction to this graphic novel adaptation to Kafka's works attempts to dispel the reader's biases to the format. As an educator I am always in search for adaptations which might spark student interest. This particular one by Peter Kuper did not disappoint. Kuper's illustrations heighten and enhance the creepy and insightful nature of each of Kafka's short stories. I highly recommend this collection if you're looking for something both accessible and thought provoking.

So glad I found this little gem! It includes depictions of some of my favorite Kafka short stories- The Hunger Artist being chief among them- and some I'd never come across before. Kruper's illustrations are spot on- dark, nightmarish, and oppressively foreboding. Definitely a treasure for any Kafka fan and a super accessible introduction to Kafka if you're not familiar with his work.

Graphic novels have never been high in my reading priorities, but I decided this year I would try some different things. This little gem came up in my search.I selected it because it is short stories, it is Kafka, it has an introduction by Jules Feiffer. I didn't know Kuper. I had read all of these stories before (more than once) but Kuper's bold black and white illustrations add a whole now dimension. He nails it.

beautiful drawings, and so oddly thrilling to see kafka's stories alive in graphic form.

Nine short stories by Kafka put into graphic art. The stories didn't appeal to me at all, nor did the art. Dark and bizarre.

i read give it up & wanted to log it lmfao

I wish we could give half stars. 3 seems too low for anything related to Kafka but this isn't really on par with other '4s'. Eh.I don't really do the graphic novel thing but this seemed cool. The artist is talented as shit but, at the same time, not many of the pictures grabbed me. Most of the stories were summed up in just a few images - sometimes even a single one. If you are going to attempt to sum up Kafka's writing in a single drawing you better really know what your doing. Overall, I would...

Kafka's short stories or for the most part prose, picked by Kuper to illustrate in this collection. The test and illustration work well together but the stories themselves weren't as engaging as I thought though certainly thought-provoking.

one of my favourite graphic novelists and one of my favourite writers in one short book is amazing! Kuper's drawings are so fitting for the writings of Kafka. it was very enjoyable and dark at the same time.

These stories were so wildly different from what I'm used to and I really liked it. I think Kuper did a fantastic job illustrating and I love his style so much. I would read a lot more classics if he could illustrate them all.

Some of the adaptations here are brilliant, like The Bridge or The Trees. Most of the others are quite good, and some were just OK. All in all, the book is well made, which can't be said for many comic adaptations of literature.I am somewhat biased because I immensely enjoyed Robert Crumb's Kafka biography, so I will probably measure anything in that vein against it.This comic could serve as a short introduction to Kafka because it conveys his stories' weirdness, covers a wide range of relativel...

Another great adaptation by Kuper! My only complaint would be its length. Some of the re-tellings are a little too short.

Stuff I Read - Give it Up! and Other Short Stories by Peter Kuper and Franz KafkaSo this was a weird find at a library book sale, but as I am a fan of graphic novels and Kafka both, I couldn't resist picking it up and bringing it home. And I must say I'm not disappointed. It is a strange and probably none-too-cheery collection of Kafka's very short works rendered in comic form, which makes them further strange. Adding a bit to the spectacle was my wife reading the stories in the original German

This is a brilliant reimaging of nine Kafka short stories. In his introduction, Jules Feiffer compares them to jazz, "Like Bird doing 'Embraceable You,' it may not be Gershwin, but it's art." I could not say it better, which is why I quoted Feiffer. Just one example, the bridge in "The Bridge" is a human being stretched across the ravine. Not exactly what Kafka created, which was a somewhat anthropomorphic bridge that was nevertheless not actually human, so Kuper takes the story to a different l...

I definitely didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either.

I wanted to know if they were literal translations. Translated to English, of course, but also to find out if they were abridged. At the library, I checked out "Franz Kafka - Collected Stories." The shortest are word for word and the longest (?) are very close.Word for WordA Little FableGive It UpThe BridgeThe TreesThe TopThe VultureSlightly AbridgedThe HelmsmanAbridgedA Hunger ArtistA FratricideI continue reading the Collected Stories . . .

What is better than depressing, deeply agonizing, and strikingly revealing than Kafka? it is Kafka in comics! This isn't your usual "novel-turned-into-graphic novel" affair, this is the artists interpretation of some of kafka's short stories. The result is shock and beauty. If you're into the kafkaesque, pick this up and enjoy it :)