Kafka in Comics
On Tuesday 11 June 2024, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Franz Kafka the Delegation of Prague to the EU organised the lecture and presentation KAFKA IN COMICS given by Pavel Kořínek (Center for Comics Studies at Institute of Czech Literature CAS and Faculty of Arts at Palacký University).
Franz Kafka's works are among the most common pretexts of comic book adaptations, and those "Kafka / Comics" employ a rich catalogue of adaptation approaches and interpretative practices, from uninventive rewritings through paraphrase or parody to very loose adaptations that go far beyond the mere media transposition of the pretext; and last but not least, a specific subcategory is represented by comics "about Kafka". In several analytical case studies, the lecture will attempt to look at the various variants of Kafkas in comics and Kafkaesque in comics, with special attention paid to some of the more significant Kafka / Comics by Robert Crumb, Jaromír 99, Olivier Deprez, Peter Kuper and the Nishioka siblings.
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