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Loading... Berlin (original 2000; edition 2020)by Jason Lutes (Author)
Work InformationBerlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes (2000)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A beautifully drawn graphic novel depicting Berlin between the wars. The plot is a little bit convoluted due to the many different characters, but overall I think it's more about the atmosphere than the plot anyway. ( ) Berlin: City of Stones, according to the magazine Time, is one of the best graphic novel ever written. Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes is supposed to be a graphic novel series describing life in Berlin between WWI and WWII. The main characters of book one are an art student (Marthe Mueller) and a journalist (Kurt Severing), a second story line tells about a family who decides to follow the main political streams: mother and daughter join the communist party, while father and son join the Nazis. In Germany, following World War First, a new government called Weimar Republic is established ; this new parliamentary republic has to face many problems: economic, extremism on the left and right political parties. Weimar Republic ends with the beginning of Hitler’s Third Reich. Back to Berlin: City of Stones, the drawings of this graphic novel are very impressive, black and white shows and tells brilliantly the History of these years. A last thought / question: Is Kurt Severing the double of Walter Benjamin (without mustache)?
Lutes felt that after spending 23 years on the project, he couldn’t give in to the temptation to turn his comic into an allegory for the Trump era. “I still plan to stay true to the characters and their context, without letting current events color things in any overt way,” he says of the final chapters. For all the similarities between Berlin and the United States today, the present can seem in some ways unprecedented. Belongs to SeriesBerlin {1996-2018 comic} (1-8) Is contained inContains
Covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1999, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5973The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, Comics Collections North American United States (General)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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