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David Mazzucchelli
Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 4.19 | 23653 Users | 1528 Reviews
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| Title | : | Asterios Polyp |
| Author | : | David Mazzucchelli |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | July 7th 2009 by Pantheon |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Comic Book. Art. Bande Dessinée |
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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? 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. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception. Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.Particularize Books Supposing Asterios Polyp
| Original Title: | Asterios Polyp |
| ISBN: | 0307377326 (ISBN13: 9780307377326) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Asterios Polyp, Hana Sonnenschein, Stiff Major, Ursula Major, Willy Ilium |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Original Work & Best Letterer (for David Mazzucchelli) (2010), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2009), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–New (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novel (2009) |
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This is hovering between a 4 and a 5 for me right now. Wow - really a sophisticated book. And can I just say that its so great to read a critiquely lauded graphic novel that is NOT a memoir. This was large in scope, nuanced in detail, and I think I need to read it again to grasp it all. The art was unexpected, with a mix of styles that really worked well together. Totally recommended to all my comic and literary fiction reading friends alike.Pseudo-intellectual, middlebrow regurgitation of ostensibly interesting Wikipedia-culled dichotomies and philosophical conceptions, clunkily arranged into a narrative. I mean, I do not understand how this book received the praise it did. Bad, bad writing. One dimensional characterizations. I'm not sure what age group it was written for, surely not adults? It reminded me of Paul Krugman's sick burn, "Newt Gingrich is a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like."
But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities
i've had to stop myself from re-reading this again and again. so good. this isn't eye candy. it's eye crack. love how the story is framed--and narrated. start reading the first few pages. you get sucked right in.
I might have to read this one again to catch all the subtleties of the story. What's amazing about this graphic novel is that it is jam-packed with ideas, but most of the ideas are embedded in the art itself, and not in the words (some of it is in words, but it's like a riff that plays along with the visuals). At the same time, all these ideas do not in any way make it a gooey-dense landscape to slodge through. The book is such a pleasure to read, filled with so many wide open panels, so much
I so wish more graphic novelists did what Mazzucchelli did in this one. Rather than merely have the graphic element supplement the story, Asterios Polyp makes graphics a part of the theme, using it to highlight conflicts and characterize its protagonists.Asterios Polyp is a critically respected and self-regarding "theoretical architect," meaning that he has created some prize-winning designs and plans--none of which has ever been built. The narrative structure is framed by the new more humble
After all the buildup and critical praise heaped on this book, my expectations were quite high. So it was something of a disappointment not to love this book. That said, I did read it rather quickly. And to its credit, the book presents an atypical protagonist for the graphic novel format. That is, a character who is not mired in outright depressing circumstances from dawn til dusk and who is articulate and socially functional. So the book is novel in this regard, or at least breaks off into a
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