Cover designer unknown.
What becomes clear in the course of Kubin’s long career is how literary a temperament he was, not only because of implicit narratives in much of his work, illustrative and otherwise. Some of his most arresting images in pen and ink seem to arise from some middle ground between writing and drawing, not calligraphy, exactly, but rather as though typeface had sprouted roots and tendrils and spread like invasive groundcover over the whole expanse.
Christopher Benfey, The Shadow World of Alfred Kubin
All art by Alfred Kubin unless otherwise noted.
• All the illustrations from the first edition.
Cover art by Roman Cieslewicz.
Cover art by Henri Lievens.
Cover designer unknown.
Cover designer unknown.
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Let me just point out that the one with the photo of the bridge is showing the Bosnian town of Mostar.
T. Capote said he ‘nightmared’ in Kubin.
E.M.: Thanks, I know the bridge but didn’t spot it in that photo.
Jay: Haha, I wouldn’t have expected Capote to be a Kubin reader.
I think I have the Penguin Modern Classics, with many interior illustrations by Kubin. It’s a favourite of mine.
That’s one edition I’ve never seen during all my years haunting secondhand bookshops. I have the later Dedalus edition, a new translation but with very poor reproductions of the illustrations.