Nicolas Mahler Libros

En el Kunsthistorisches Museum de Viena, una mañana sí y otra no -salvo los sábados, el día gratis del museo- el filósofo musical Reger ocupa su sitio en el banco situado frente a "El hombre de la barba blanca" de Tintoretto. Sin embargo, un buen día esa rutina se rompe: Reger le pide a su amigo Atzbacher que se reúna el sábado con él en el museo. Antes de desvelar el motivo de tan insólita conducta, Reger se desahogará en unas parrafadas llenas de energía contra el arte en general y contra los pintores en particular, reprobando a Stifter y a Heidegger por igual, denostando a Viena y a los vieneses. Y eso aun a sabiendas de que solo encontrará la salvación en un homólogo humano, que en el caso de Reger es "el ser de su vida{OCLCbr#BB}. Nicolas Mahler nos presenta una sensacional adaptación a novela gráfica de esta comedia más que negra de Thomas Bernhard

Allí se encuentra con el conejo blanco, que cita a autores como Melville, Cioran o Nietzsche y la lleva a su madriguera subterránea en busca de una edición ilustrada del Frankenstein en Sussex de H. C. Artmann. Al contrario de lo que ocurre en Alicia en el país de las maravillas de Lewis Carroll, aquí Alicia se halla en una casa en las profundidades de la tierra. Y en cada una de las plantas, se topa con las creaciones de Carroll: la oruga que fuma en pipa, el gato sonriente, la tortuga marina y muchos más, hasta que en la última planta de la casa, la más profunda, Alicia da con el monstruo de Frankenstein

Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form--and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about--let alone behold.

A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler’s distinctive graphic novel style.   Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, the most important novel of modernity, is a defining book of the twentieth century. Joyce’s creation—also spectacularly innovative in form—inspired Nicolas Mahler to attempt a literary retelling that is not a mere illustration or adaption of the novel but an independent and equally as inventive work. Using comics, Mahler transforms the various literary techniques of the original. He assembles his images with humorous and philosophical verve, quoting and rambling along in the spirit of Joyce.   With this graphic interpretation of the modern classic, which also constitutes a homage to the golden era of the newspaper comic strip, Ulysses can be newly discovered in a delightfully unexpected form.

A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature--if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comic is not a retelling of this classic, nor a shortened version of Proust's monumental work. Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically disrespectful of the celebrated work yet completely permeated by Proustian spirit. Complemented by his clear and sparse illustrations, Mahler's minimal nature of text use is easy on the eye, even for those uninitiated into graphic novels. For long-time fans of graphic novels, it a perfect entry into a beloved literary classic. A compact picture stream through time and space, Mahler's In Search of Lost Time is a brilliantly complex house of mirrors replete with Proustian motives and perceptions.

Sardonic take on superheroes, their fans and the businessmen behind them. Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman's powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener prove less than adequate to deal with the ever-sinister threat of insane plastic surgeon villain Gender-Bender, or for that matter the fickleness of fashion, a disastrous movie adaptation and a desperate 'Reboot' attempt by Korporte. A brilliant satire.

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s death This bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style and minimalist illustrations. Full of fascinating details and witty, absurdist illustrations, it’s a delightful tribute to one of the world’s great writers. Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: at one time, he even said it satisfied him more than anything else. In this graphic biography, acclaimed artist Nicolas Mahler echoes Kafka’s own minimalist drawing style in a unique and surprising approach to the great writer’s life and work. Drawing extensively on Kafka’s fiction, letters, and diaries, Completely Kafka illustrates the major and minor details that formed his life, from struggles with self-doubt and writer’s block to a failed plan for a series of cheap travel guides.

Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant--and his fellow serious-minded figures from the history of philosophy--with a comic edge. With his witty visual style and clever wordplay, he delves into their lives and emerges with hitherto unknown scenes that show them in a new (and far less serious) light. We go to parties with Kant, visit an art exhibition with Hegel, shop at the supermarket with Nietzsche, and go to the cinema with Deleuze, and celebrate the dream wedding with de Beauvoir. In each case, we come away knowing more about the life, thoughts, and feelings of the philosopher--getting to know them as people rather than as stony-faced figures long since robbed of any existence beyond their ideas. The result is pure fun, but with plenty of insight, too.

Das Institut für Sozialforschung führt eine wissenschaftliche Studie über die subjektiv empfundene Lebensqualität von Frauen zwischen zwanzig und dreißig Jahren durch und telefoniert dazu mit der Wiener Bevölkerung. Nicolas Mahler, männlich und beinah vierzig, passt wenig in das Umfrageprofil, was aber den Anrufer nicht stört: So eng sehe man das nicht… Nach "Kunsttheorie versus Frau Goldgruber" und "Die Zumutungen der Moderne" ist "Pornografie und Selbstmord" das dritte Buch mit autobiografischen Kurzgeschichten des Wiener Zeichners.