Krazy Kat

by Jay Cantor

Book Overview

Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394550250
• ISBN13: 9780394550251
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A slow but endearing look at what it means to be human

This is not a book for everyone. I am, admittedly, a fan of Cantor's style, so perhaps this isn't an unbiased review. Cantor's books have a way of sneaking up on you - they're kind of slow, but every sentence is a joy to read, if you enjoy good writing for the sake of good writing. In Krazy Kat in particular, I think Cantor does an excellent job of weaving theme and symbolism into something that literally is 2-dimmensional. He manages to glorofy both the innocence of that soimple, flat world that Kat and Ignatz live in, and the less-than-perfect but complete world that we inhabit. This is a book about being human - the good and bad, but also why the journey is worth taking.

very enjoyable

It's more a collection of long stories than 1 unified novel, but I thought this book was great. Cantor's prose is clear yet clever, and I was completely engaged throughout.

Fun, clever, and sometimes bizarre

Krazy Kat is an odd duck of a book. Cantor recasts the comic strip characters with imagination, and the book is entertaining from start to finish, with some bizarre directions. I liked the setup, in which the gang has not worked for years because Krazy became disenchanted after witnessing an atomic test (and became an admirer of Oppenheimer and his anguish). Krazy is an innocent with a sort of Boopish hidden sexuality, and Ignatz is a clever schemer. The fifth panel, in which they imagine themselves as humans in an S/M relationship, is pretty wild. The novel has that sterility that comes with clever postmodern work - a couple days after reading it I had forgotten completely about it. But it certainly was fun while it lasted.