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There are books that a person just has to have read. We can know this, and still recoil from them. These books seem too massive, too challenging, too awe-inspiring. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is such a colossal novel: one greets it dutifully, in order to beat a lightning-fast retreat. But whoever has a go at this book will be immediately surprised at how light and entertaining it is to read, and wonder why he passed it up for so long.
When such a ›daring‹ reader also happens to be an exceptionally gifted graphic artist like Nicolas Mahler, whose spare drawings and laconic humor has made him an »international star of the graphic art scene« (arte), the encounter with Musil’s once-a-century novel gives way to something wholly its own: a congenial adaptation that is equally profound as it is lighthearted.
»The way Nicholas Mahler makes them, comics could hardly be funnier. They are as unmistakable in their minimalist illustrations as they are in the richness of their content.« Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives in Vienna where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. His comic strips and cartoons have been published by newspapers and magazines such as DIE ZEIT, NZZ am Sonntag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic. He has received numerous awards for his extensive oeuvre, including the Max-und-Moritz Prize for Best German-Language Comic Artist in 2010 and the Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2015 and the Sondermann Prize in 2019.
Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives in Vienna where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. His comic strips and cartoons have been published...
Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: »Did you know I was once a great drawer,« he wrote about his artistic ambitions, half ironic, half proud, to his...
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»Thomas Bernhard is born in Heerlen (the Netherlands) on February 9, 1931. The afterbirth has the shape of Austria.« – thus begins Bernhard’s biography as drawn by comic artist Nicolas Mahler.
The grand master of minimalism, who has previously and »congenially« adapted Bernhard’s Old Masters and The World-Fixer, takes readers on a wickedly funny tour...
Dublin, June 16, 1904: a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary – James Joyce has created a maximal book from a minimum of matter:...
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Sometimes, it just hits you and you don’t even know why. That’s when life seems nothing but chaotic, devastating and confusing. Fighting this, however, is profoundly pointless – and anything but funny. If, yet again, you’ve rushed into one of those crises at full throttle and can’t find your way out, you should take a look at The Little ABC of Survival. From »Age« to »Work«, from...
Marcel Proust’s Recherche is one of the most important French novels, if not the most important – reading it can be life changing. Nicolas Mahler’s comic is not a retelling, not a...
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English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon)
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In his brilliant new graphic novel Nicolas Mahler purges Frank Wedekind’s tragedies Earth Spirit und Pandora’s Box and creates a black comedy about the corporeality of women, the possessive mentality of men, and Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square.
Frank Wedekind’s man-eating Lulu once again finds herself in a Suprematist’s atelier. Struggling back and...
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English world rights (Seagull), Czech Republic (Archa)
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