Baking with Kafka

by Tom Gauld

Hardcover, 2017

Library's rating

Status

Available

Call number

0.gauld

Genres

Comics

Collections

Gelezen, BOEKEN over BOEKEN en UITGEVERS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, STRIPS en COMICS

Publication

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017.

Library's review

Meer in de lijn van 'You're all just jealous of my jetpack', maar met misschien net iets minder pit.

User reviews

LibraryThing member RobertDay

Tom Gauld's quirky cartoons will be familiar (to readers in the UK) from The Guardian (the literary ones) and New Scientist (the sciency ones). He knows his subjects so well as to score serious hits in both camps. This (very nicely-produced) volume includes gems like the re-hang in the M.C.Escher

gallery, J.G. Ballard's books for children, the very cultural teddy bear, the workshop on 'Procrastination for creative writers', and one of his rare but perceptive excursions into small-'p' politics, "Our Blessed Homeland - Their Barbarous Wastes'. Highly recommended.

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LibraryThing member villemezbrown

These clever cartoons about books and literature made me laugh out loud over and over.

LibraryThing member MickyFine

A collection of bookish comic strips sure to delight any reader.

LibraryThing member fred_mouse

A book of one per page mostly literary cartoons. The canon that gets referened is somewhat limited, and relies heavily on the reader having a similar cultural context. I was excited by the one that referenced J G Ballard, rather than dead English writers (I'm oversimplifying. but 'classics of the

English tradition' at the very least).

There were multiple points at which I was all That Isn't Funny - reference to an anti-Semitic trope, and mixing of ableist words in with more lighthearted terms as if they all had the same weight. There may well be others I missed. Plus there were a couple of just nasty ones about sports fans. There is no need to belittle that which others love just to celebrate yours.

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