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Pajak, Frederik.
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Pajak, Frederik.
Pajak, Frederik -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, French -- 21st century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Uncertain manifesto. Volume I / Frédéric
Pajak
; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
by
Pajak
,
Frederik
.
New York Review Books, 2019.
Call #:
848.91403 P151u
Subjects
Pajak
,
Frederik
-- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, French -- 21st century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781681372860 (pbk.)
Description:
187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"The writer and artist Frédéric
Pajak
was ten when he began to "dream of a work that would mingle words and images...bits of adventure, collected memories, sentences, phantoms, forgotten heroes, trees, the stormy sea," but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as The Wind of Things. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of
Pajak
's heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience
Pajak
re-creates and reflects on in word and image.
Pajak
's moody black-and-white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all
Pajak
's as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past"--from publisher.
Genre:
Graphic novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic non-fiction.
Other authors:
Pajak
,
Frederik
. Manifeste incertain. Tome 1. English.
Nicholson-Smith, Donald.
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Adult Graphic Nonfiction
848.91403 P151u
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