The knock at the manor gate, written by Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was printed by the artist in an 30 copy edition. The text is lithographed in black on 5 folded sheets (20 pages) in two versions: 1) 14 copies on blue paper; 2) 16 copies on ochre paper. On 4 pages illustrations on white paper have been mounted. Another two illustrations on a single piece of folded

white paper were bound in separately. Furthermore there are three folded sheets (12 pages) of see through chalk-paper with lithographed illustrations on one side. At the back is a folded leaf with the original German text printed in offset. In this book Karasik uses for the first time St. Petersburg as the place of publication, the original name of his home town having just been

accepted to replace Leningrad.

References:

Ekaterinburg 1994, no. 60