| Poem Strip Including an Explanation of the Afterlife Contributor(s): Buzzati, Dino (Author), Harss, Marina (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590173236 ISBN-13: 9781590173237 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $12.71 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2009 Annotation: A New York Review Books Original Dino Buzzati is a luminary of the mid-twentieth-century Italian literary avant-garde and the author of "The Tartar Steppe," a modern classic. He was also an accomplished visual artist. "Poem Strip," from 1968, unites his various talents in a pioneering graphic novel that relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of modern Milan. The Orpheus figure is a guitarist and Eurydice is Eura, who is no sooner seen and desired than lost. Her lover follows her into an underworld of temptation and delusion, at once bar, strip joint, hall of mirrors, horror show, and tunnel of love. He tells stories to wake the dead-outlandish tales that open up strange metaphysical perspectives within the self-and returns with a precious secret that may be everything or nothing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary - Comics & Graphic Novels | Fantasy - Comics & Graphic Novels | Romance |
| Dewey: 741.594 |
| LCCN: 2009021713 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.24" W x 8.04" (0.79 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A New York Review Books Original There's a certain street--via Saterna--in the middle of Milan that just doesn't show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it's there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, "like a spirit," through a little door in the high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way. Where has Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders of life and death to find out. Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip--a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s--is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde. |