Asterios Polyp

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It seems like Asterio's problems with putting things into tidy either/or boxes is also an extension of David Mazzucchelli's same impulse. This turns out to be a running motif, and later, during Asterios and Hana's first meeting, his blue outlines begin to fill with pink haze, and her pink shadows become outlined in blue, until they both have nearly the same appearance. Nothing super sexy or anything (you pervs), but details that could have easily been left out of the conversation.

Of course we suspect if Asterios abandons one aspect he will be destroyed even as Orpheus was for abandoning Dionysus. Ma anche la storia è arricchita di innesti: Calvino, Nietzsche, Joyce, Shakespeare, Hegel, Hesse, Escher, Parmenide, Bakunin, il cubismo, i pitagorici, ontologia, morale, estetica, cinema, psicanalisi, astrologia, religione, e sopra tutto, il mito di Orfeo. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It is a testament to how distancing the story is that at the end, when the asteroid destroys everyone (itself a pretty immature narrative device), I didn't feel shocked or anything. Con esta novela gráfica he quedado fascinada sobre todo en el aspecto formal: el dibujo, el cambio en los colores para caracterizar a los personajes o para indicar el tiempo.It was published as a hardcover, with an architectonic design that alluded to themes of form and function within the text, including a dust jacket shorter than the size of the book that revealed the structure underneath. But it's that brilliant kind of complex which can be enjoyed on many levels, like Lolita, say, or The Metamorphosis, where, if you'd like, you can derive great enjoyment from the story on the surface, without doing a whole lot of delving. With clever storytelling, innovative and exciting artwork, intelligent and thought-provoking ideas, AP is one of the best books I've read in a long time. Asterios Polyp is a fast, fun read, but it’s also a work that has been carefully wrought to take optimum advantage of comics’ hybrid nature—it’s a tale that could only be told on the knife-edge where text and art come seamlessly together.

Asterios is often represented in blue lines, much like an architectural blueprint, while Hana is reflected in simple pink. As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. Als zijn appartement in New York in vlammen opgaat, staat zijn leven op zijn kop en volgen we hem op de weg die hij dan inslaat. As well, there are plenty of references to The Odyssey and this cross-pollination of mythologies only serves to enrich our experience of Asterios' journey. The technique is used to great effect when highlighting the different ways the pair look at the same things.As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he's gotten to where he is.

Solo che Mazzucchelli è il Thomas Pynchon del fumetto: ergo, sa trasformare una storia già nota in un’avventura unica.

In the latter (the NY flashbacks) we see the womanizer Asterios finally settle down with one woman, Hana, an age-inappropriate Japanese-American modernist artist in her own right whose star threatens to rise once she's asked to do the set design for an avant-garde production of Orpheus. Asterios Polyp is a thoroughly designed experience, with every element from script to story to illustration to panel design to colouration to control of whitespace adding voice to the chorus of this performance.

The narrative structure is framed by the new more humble life he has set out to claim after his Manhattan apartment went up in flames, as we get his pre-disaster life through flashbacks. This fan of the novel is an ever bigger fan of the magic that happens in comics, and only in comics, when text and art work together to create something wholly, wonderfully new. Man mano, lungo il suo road trip, rinuncerà a ciascuno di questi oggetti, se ne libererà donandoli, completerà lo smantellamento dell’armatura esistenziale che lo ha protetto (ma anche isolato) fin qui, alleggerendosi e riuscendo finalmente a venire a patti col lato pratico delle cose, e quindi della vita. Una historia donde entrelaza forma y fondo para contar la vida de un personaje atrapado por una visión dual del mundo.I thought it was boring - an educated, middle-aged white man feels like his life has fallen apart so he jumps ship and tries to start over again. A simpler concept in theory than in execution, but Asterios Polyp shows exactly why it's worth thinking about. Asterios, proprio come Elvis Presley, ha un fratello gemello morto alla nascita, Ignacio, di cui scopre l’esistenza solo molti anni dopo. Numa primeira leitura, você provavelmente não vai pegar todas as referências, porque é provavelmente impossível. Each character's speech is written in a unique font, one which is clearly representative of that person's personality.