{"product_id":"antonio-saura-kafka-lithograph-no-271-300","title":"Franz Kafka’s Tagebücher — Saura  1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lithograph is one of 69 works created by Antonio Saura in response to Franz Kafka’s \u003cem data-end=\"209\" data-start=\"197\"\u003eTagebücher\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-end=\"220\" data-start=\"211\"\u003eDiaries\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 1988 as a limited artist's book. Printed on fine \u003cem data-end=\"306\" data-start=\"285\"\u003epapier vélin Bütten\u003c\/em\u003e, the image is part of a visual diary where Saura confronts Kafka’s interior world—translating dread, delirium, and bodily disintegration into graphic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"984\" data-start=\"464\"\u003eThe composition is sprawling and almost anatomical: limbs, breasts, and faces twist violently into each other, rendered in airbrush-like shadows and urgent black line. A female nude is flattened, pierced by expressive stroke—less a figure than a vessel of anxiety. There is both play and punishment in the way Saura draws here: embracing the grotesque, but with a controlled rhythm. The image splits down the fold of the page, reinforcing its origin in book form—meant to be turned, not framed; lived with, not isolated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1322\" data-start=\"986\"\u003eSaura’s engagement with Kafka was not literal, but psychic. This is Kafka’s diary not as narrative, but as nightmare: the artist tapping into an abyss of guilt, repression, absurdity and flesh. The result is one of the most ambitious graphic cycles of the postwar era—less an illustration than a confrontation between two haunted minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1646\" data-start=\"1324\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1343\" data-start=\"1324\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"1346\" data-start=\"1343\"\u003eTitle: 69 works, Franz Kafka, Tagebücher\u003cbr data-end=\"1389\" data-start=\"1386\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Antonio Saura\u003cbr data-end=\"1422\" data-start=\"1419\"\u003eDate: 1988\u003cbr data-end=\"1435\" data-start=\"1432\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Lithograph\u003cbr data-end=\"1477\" data-start=\"1474\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Ink on Bütten paper\u003cbr data-end=\"1519\" data-start=\"1516\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 33.5 × 25 × 4.5 cm (volume)\u003cbr data-end=\"1566\" data-start=\"1563\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: (Not specified — edition from 1988)\u003cbr data-end=\"1624\" data-start=\"1621\"\u003eCondition: Excellent\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777167196498,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/Screenshot2026-01-14at22.29.54_1.jpg?v=1768427286","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/en-it\/products\/antonio-saura-kafka-lithograph-no-271-300","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}