Loket, Czech Republic: Jarmila Jelena Sobota, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Inside of the box, hidden under the book, is an insect cast in acrylic resin. The insect depicts the author's idea of "Metamorphosis" of a man changing into a bug.
There are different types of insects used in this edition with each book utilizing one of the insects listed below:
Heterometrus spinifer Malaysian forest scorpion
Rhomborrhina gigantea (Green) Scarab beetles
Prosopocoilus astacoides Beetle of the Family Lucanidae
Prosopocoilus astacoides Beetle of the Family Lucanidae
Prosopocoilus astacoides Beetle of the Family Lucanidae
Brachypelma klaasi Mexican pink tarantula
Vespa mandarinia Asian giant hornet
This is what the maker of the Insects cast in acrylic resin says about his work:
"The insects cast in acrylic resin are fascinating specimens of the insect kingdom.
Creepy scorpions, luscious colors of the Green Rose Chafer, in such detail that you can see the eye and the sophisticated body structure, feet, as well as antennae and hair! Yes, that provides detailed representatives from the insect kingdom embedded in high-quality acrylic resin. Its clarity even seems like glass! Real insects in resin put there in a position to create unique learning tools, relics, collectibles, decorative objects and unconventional and surprising gifts.
"Yes" nature and its beauty is not the exception and please note that there was no unnecessary killing insects to embed into the resin. Let us specify this straight away, animal rights supporters are certainly calmed when we confirm that we do not kill insects - insects in the resin are always watered until their natural death. These insects are grown on farms that are specific to each exclusively designed breed". Signed by Sobota. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full mustard leather boards, "Bradel" binding structure, goatskin used for the cover has a batik design, laser-cut figure onlay hand tooled and painted with acrylic; leather strip wrap; printed paper archival box with acrylic inlay at bottom with encased insect. Approx. 3x3". 105pp. Numbered limited edition of 13.

Synopsis

Franz Kafka was born in 1833 to a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family. His father, the self-made proprietor of a wholesale haberdashery business, was a domineering man whose approbation Franz continually struggled to win. The younger Kafka's feelings of inadequacy and guilt form the background of much of his work and are made explicit in his "Letter to His Father" (excerpted in this volume), which was written in 1919 but never sent. Kafka was educated in the German language schools of Prague and at the city's German University, where in 1908 he took a law degree. Literature, however, remained his sole passion. At this time he became part of a literary circle that included Franz Werfel, Martin Buber, and Kafka's close friend Max Brod. Encouraged by Brod, Kafka published the prose collection Observations in 1913. Two years later his story "The Stoker" won the Fontaine prize. In 1916 he began work on The Trial and between this time and 1923 produced three incomplete novels as well as numerous sketches and stories. In his lifetime some of his short works did appear: The Judgment (1916), The Metamorphosis (1916), The Penal Colony (1919), and The Country Doctor (1919). Before his death of tuberculosis in 1924, Kafka had charged Max Brod with the execution of his estate, ordering Brod to burn the manuscripts. With the somewhat circular justification that Kafka must have known his friend could not obey such an order, Brod decided to publish Kafka's writings. To this act of "betrayal" the world owes the preservation of some of the most unforgettable and influential literary works of our century.

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Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8633
Title: Metamorphosis [Design Binding]
Author: Kafka, Franz [Sobota Binding]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine Archival Box
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Limited Edition
Publisher: Jarmila Jelena Sobota
Place of Publication: Loket, Czech Republic
Date Published: 2013
Keywords: Miniatures

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