KAFKA’S DOLL
 by Anthony Rudolf & Paul Coldwell [2007] - SIGNED

Limited edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered by the authors. This is copy number 192.

EMH Arts/Eagle Gallery, London, 2007 | Hardcover, 48 pages | 208 x 275 mm

A literary ghost story wrapped in velvet prose, Kafka’s Doll is a collaborative bookwork between artist Paul Coldwell and poet Anthony Rudolf. Based on a recorded event from Franz Kafka’s life — where the famously anxious author took on the persona of a missing doll to correspond with a grieving child — this delicate narrative offers a meditation on loss and kindness.

Rudolf’s elegant text hums with quiet magic, while Coldwell’s computer-crafted images layer drawn and photographic elements with poetic precision. Simple objects — think children's dot-to-dot drawings — drift alongside maps of distant constellations, weaving a narrative that’s part fable, part love letter to imagination itself.

This is a slim book with a vast interior life — the kind of object that slips into your hands and rearranges the furniture of your mind while you're not looking. A tender, cerebral artefact perfect for collectors who appreciate a little philosophy with their whimsy, or anyone who suspects that, somewhere between reality and invention, there’s a secret door Kafka himself might have held open.

Very good condition: Slight surface and edge wear to covers, internally pristine.