Introducing Kafka
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 Book cover | |
| Author | David Zane Mairowitz |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robert Crumb |
| Language | English |
| Series | Introducing... |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | Totem Books |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 1-84046-122-5 |
Introducing Kafka, also known as R. Crumb's Kafka, is an illustrated biography of Franz Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb.[1] The book includes comic adaptations of some of Kafka's most famous works including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and The Judgment, as well as brief sketches of his three novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika. The book also details Kafka's biography in a format that is part illustrated essay, part sequential comic panels.
The book was released as part of the "Introducing..." series by Totem Books; the popularity of Crumb's renditions of Kafka's works led to additional printings under the titles R. Crumb's Kafka and Kafka for Beginners, and its most recent edition by Fantagraphics Books (2007) is titled simply Kafka.
