Michail Karasik

(1953 - 2017)

 

 

2784

 

Franz Kafka

Die Verwandlung

Metamorphosis

Prague: MK, 1992

322 x 265 mm.  pages nn.

Edition: 30. Copy no. 4/27

 

 

Karasik made three versions of Metamorphosis, a story by Franz Kafka. When Karasik was invited to work in Hustopeče u Brna in the Czech Republic, he printed an album of 8 single-page and 2 double-page lithographs illustrating the story in a 30 copy edition. These are housed with two lithographed title pages in German in a cardboard folder.

 

 

 

 

 

1520

 

Franz Kafka

Превращение

Metamorphosis

Moscow: Ima Press, 1992

248 x 206 mm. 74 pages

Edition: 30. Copy no. 57/100

 

 

 

The same 10 illustrations, with the paper cut down to a smaller size, together with a Russian language translation of the text were published in a 100 copy edition by IMA Press in collaboration with Dablus in Moscow.

 

 

1288

 

Franz Kafka

Die Verwandlung

Metamorphosis

SPb: Arsis, 1993

320 x 250 mm. 60 pages

Edition: 150. Copy no. 6/150

Copy no. 89/150 (in slipcase)

 

 

 

A year later a German text version in almost the same size as the portfolio was published in a 150 copy edition, printed in offset by the Arsis publishing house in St. Petersburg. For a few copies in this edition, a lithographed slipcase was produced.