Burn it after my death

  • Bogumil Bezel

This project is an exploration of the word “Lost”. Franz Kafka and his complicated life is the focus of this small and intimate publication, its size was chosen to make the feeling of something personal and private. Franz Kafka wanted his works to be completely destroyed after his death. He never ended the majority of his novels; he was lost in love and the place where he was born. Central to Kafka's work is the notion of being lost in our lives and this project depicts the confusion and disruption which we feel while reading ‘Metamorphosis’ or ‘The Trial’. I wanted my reader to feel anxiety and disorientation, I wanted them to understand and feel all of these aspects within the writing. Each informative chapter is followed by a more artistic typographic exploration that intend to visually embody thoughts and feelings within his books.