This slender volume contains retellings of three Kafka pieces. “The Metamorphosis,” of course, along with “Excursion in the Mountains” and “Josefine the Singer or, The Mouse People.” The latter two I am ashamed to admit I was completely unfamiliar with, so this book was my first experience with them.

This is a beautiful book which stands alone as a piece of art. That's my appraisal. The artwork is just extraordinary. Edward Gorey is, I think, the first reference-point many will make, but the line-work is much more detailed than anything Gorey ever did. Look at the full rolls of thick beards of the “three strange men with long beards” who have moved in with the Samsas, the way their beards roll and tumble like tiny strands of insane pasta, each individually realized.

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