11.12.2024, 7:00 PM
Nicolas Mahler in Milan
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Nicolas Mahler in Milan
11 December 2024, 7p.m.
Goethe-Institute Milan
Nicolas Mahler will talk about his biographical comic Komplett Kafka (‘The complete Kafka’)
The Milan Goethe-Institut, in association with the Milan Austrian Cultural Forum and Edizioni Clichy, presents the Austrian graphic artist Nicolas Mahler.
‘Let me tell you, I was a great artist once upon time’, so Franz Kafka told his long-term fiancée Felice Bauer in a letter in 1913 when reflecting on his erstwhile ambition to become an artist. Back in the past he had felt ‘more fulfilled by his art than by absolutely anything else’. At the same time, though, Kafka was decidedly unkeen on anyone else illustrating his books. When it came to the cover picture for his story Die Verwandlung (‘Metamorphosis’), he suspected that the appointed illustrator might take it into his head to try to depict the ‘beetle’. And that is exactly what the Austrian comic-creator Nicolas Mahler has now done. He has reduced the creepy-crawly dung-beetle Gregor, the emaciated ‘starvation artist’, the singing mouse Josefine and sundry other Kafka characters to matchstick figures. And even Kafka himself, his fiancée Felice and his friend Max Brod are all subjected to the same treatment.
In Komplett Kafka, Kafka’s life and his most important works are depicted in comic form. Nicolas Mahler published his book back in November 2023 (Suhrkamp Verlag). Harking back to that event and in honour of Kafka’s 2024 centenary, Nicolas Mahler got together with the Stuttgart ‘Literaturhaus’ to present an exhibition in which excerpts from Komplett Kafka are displayed in poster form. The exhibition can be viewed not only in Stuttgart but also - until 20 December 2024 - at the Milan Goethe Institute.
Komplett Kafka (Suhrkamp) has been published in Italy by Edizioni Clichy in a translation by Matteo Galli and Franziska Peltenburg-Brechneff. The translation was supported by the Translation Support Programme of the litrix.de arm of the Goethe Institute.
Further details
Language: Original language plus translation
Entry is free of charge, but pre-registration is required
progr-mailand@goethe.de
This event is part of the series Zwischen den Zeilen....
11 December 2024, 7p.m.
Goethe-Institute Milan
Nicolas Mahler will talk about his biographical comic Komplett Kafka (‘The complete Kafka’)
The Milan Goethe-Institut, in association with the Milan Austrian Cultural Forum and Edizioni Clichy, presents the Austrian graphic artist Nicolas Mahler.
‘Let me tell you, I was a great artist once upon time’, so Franz Kafka told his long-term fiancée Felice Bauer in a letter in 1913 when reflecting on his erstwhile ambition to become an artist. Back in the past he had felt ‘more fulfilled by his art than by absolutely anything else’. At the same time, though, Kafka was decidedly unkeen on anyone else illustrating his books. When it came to the cover picture for his story Die Verwandlung (‘Metamorphosis’), he suspected that the appointed illustrator might take it into his head to try to depict the ‘beetle’. And that is exactly what the Austrian comic-creator Nicolas Mahler has now done. He has reduced the creepy-crawly dung-beetle Gregor, the emaciated ‘starvation artist’, the singing mouse Josefine and sundry other Kafka characters to matchstick figures. And even Kafka himself, his fiancée Felice and his friend Max Brod are all subjected to the same treatment.
In Komplett Kafka, Kafka’s life and his most important works are depicted in comic form. Nicolas Mahler published his book back in November 2023 (Suhrkamp Verlag). Harking back to that event and in honour of Kafka’s 2024 centenary, Nicolas Mahler got together with the Stuttgart ‘Literaturhaus’ to present an exhibition in which excerpts from Komplett Kafka are displayed in poster form. The exhibition can be viewed not only in Stuttgart but also - until 20 December 2024 - at the Milan Goethe Institute.
Komplett Kafka (Suhrkamp) has been published in Italy by Edizioni Clichy in a translation by Matteo Galli and Franziska Peltenburg-Brechneff. The translation was supported by the Translation Support Programme of the litrix.de arm of the Goethe Institute.
Further details
Language: Original language plus translation
Entry is free of charge, but pre-registration is required
progr-mailand@goethe.de
This event is part of the series Zwischen den Zeilen....
11.12.2024,