Folon's Metamorphosis 2
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
In December 2008 I featured Jean-Michel Folon's illustrations for Kafka's "Metamorphosis" (Olivetti, 1973). [Link to that post.] I hope you enjoy this follow-up post.
I also include here some of Folon's non-Kafka work from the 70s, and one image from 1983 ("The Feast") from the out-of-print retrospective Folon's Folons.
As I said last time: In his introduction to Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin, 2007; buy the deluxe version with the Sammy Harkham cover before it disappears), Michael Hofmann writes of:
...Kafka's suggestion as to how his story might be illustrated, if it had to be illustrated—not, pace Nabokov, with an entomologically or coleopterically correct beetle... but with a picture of a man lying in bed.
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Jean-Michel Folon, 1973, illus. for Kafka's Metamorphosis
Jean-Michel Folon, 1974, 'Alice Editions'
Jean-Michel Folon, The View, 1970
Jean-Michel Folon, 1972, 'I write you from a distant country'
Jean-Michel Folon, 1972, 'The Art of Conversation'
