CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Departments of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University present Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka—Verschrieben & Verzeichnet, on view in the Sert Gallery from September 13 through October 16, 2011. An opening panel discussion and reception will take place on Thursday, September 29, at 6 pm. The Kafka cycle presented here consists of forty-nine sketches created over the past four years by Pavel Schmidt, Swiss painter, illustrator, and installation artist. The title of each drawing is the name of a character from one of Kafka’s narratives or someone the author personally knew. Schmidt juxtaposes each drawing with a fragment from Kafka’s previously unpublished writings, which are here presented in the German with English translations. The texts are not meant to explain the images, nor the images the texts. There is neverthele