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Indlæser... Stitches: A Memoir (2009)af David Small
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Too much setup, not enough payoff. It is one thing for an artist to credit his career choice to an unhappy youth in which opportunities for self-expression were perpetually stifled, and quite another for an artist to say that his parents literally took his voice from him. That, however, is the story of David Small’s life as he tells it in “Stitches,” a graphic memoir, which comes out this week. Graphic in every sense of the word, Small's masterfully drawn memoir will arrest readers from the very first cell. The shaded artwork, composed mostly of ink washes, is both evocative and beautifully detailed. Like other “important” graphic works it seems destined to sit beside—think no less than Maus—this is a frequently disturbing, pitch-black funny, ultimately cathartic story whose full impact can only be delivered in the comics medium, which keeps it palatable as it reinforces its appalling aspects. HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist. No library descriptions found. |
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Bogen handler nemlig om Smalls kærlighedsløse barndom med en lægefar, som ikke er til stede, en bror der har valgt at trække sig ned i kælderen til sine trommer, og ikke mindst en afvisende og bitter mor som tydeligvis ikke elsker sin søn. Der tales ikke i familien, hele stemningen mellem mor og søn er på kanten af aggression - og den eneste opmærksomhed David får fra moderen er brok over, at han er dyr i drift eller hvis der er noget moderen ellers ikke bryder sig om ved ham.
Det er en stærk og knugende, nærmest ordløs, fortælling. Men der mangler alligevel noget. I modsætning til mange andre grafiske romaner formår Small ikke at skabe den sammenhæng mellem ord og billeder, der er kendetegnet for nogle af de rigtig gode grafiske romaner. Jeg ville faktisk hellere hve læst bogen som 'rigtig' roman, hvor der kunne være blevet gravet dybere ind under huden på resten af familien ikke mindst faderen og broderen. Men absolut god bog, som kan anbefales - og utrolig flot tegnet. ( )