Gibs auf! und andere Erzählungen #[nn]

Franz Kafka's short prose pieces find a striking visual voice in this German-language collection from Carlsen Comics, illustrated throughout by Peter Kuper. The cover alone sets an unsettling tone: a hulking, beetle-browed authority figure in a peaked cap and dark uniform looms over a diminutive, helpless figure below — Kafkaesque power and vulnerability rendered in bold, woodcut-style black and white. Kuper's expressionistic linework feels like a natural match for Kafka's world of faceless bureaucracy and quiet dread.