Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor: By Franz Kafka - Hardcover

Kafka, Franz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954502566 ISBN 13: 9780954502560

Publisher: Four Corners Books, 2009

Synopsis

In this volume, British artist David Musgrave revisits Franz Kafka's novella Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, the tale of a man who arrives home one day to find two plastic balls bouncing off the ground of their own accord. To his great irritation, these balls follow Blumfeld--who is a stickler for absolute order in his universe--wherever he goes, and his attempts to divest himself of their presence are described with Kafka's customary flair for the detached observation of the extremely bizarre. Musgrave has responded to Kafka's story with a series of pencil drawings of curious artifacts and pseudo-archaeological fragments of his own invention. Combined with John Morgan's austere design--which finds the book typeset in Kafka's preferred font and large type size, which he was never able to see printed in his lifetime--this volume almost feels like a case study of some unique bygone supernatural phenomenon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Four Corners Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0954502566
• ISBN 13: 9780954502560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88
• Illustrator: Musgrave David