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Peter Kuper: Kafkaesque

30.04.2021 to 25.08.2021
Host: MQ Cultural Tenants

Peter Kuper: Kafkaesque

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Peter Kuper interprets two of Kafka's stories in oppressive black and white pictures: the obsessive hopelessness of the mouse in Kafka's story "Little Fable" and the social failure of the hunger artist in the story of the same name. Walls and bars narrow claustrophobically from supposed boundlessness ...

Peter Kuper’s work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and MAD, where he has written and illustrated “Spy vs. Spy” every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder of "World War 3 Illustrated", a political comics magazine now in its 41st year of publication. He has produced over two dozen books including Sticks and Stones (winner of The Society of Illustrators gold medal), The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosis. His most recent graphic novels include Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Rueben award) and an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.Translations of his work have appeared in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, China, Brazil, Germany and Mexico.

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