R Crumb's Kafka Author:R. Crumb, Franz Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb's Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumb's Kafka goes far beyond being explication or popularization or surveyit is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what h... more »appens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumb's art is filled with Kafka's insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsa's sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advocate's 'nurse' Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamantdrawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexualitythat Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb.« less