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A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas
Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Dublin, 16 June 1904:
through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom
and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal
book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, the most important novel of
modernity, is a defining book of the twentieth century. Joyce's
creation-also spectacularly innovative in form-inspired Nicolas
Mahler to attempt a literary retelling that is not a mere
illustration or adaption of the novel but an independent and
equally as inventive work. Using comics, Mahler transforms the
various literary techniques of the original. He assembles his
images with humorous and philosophical verve, quoting and rambling
along in the spirit of Joyce. With this graphic interpretation of
the modern classic, which also constitutes a homage to the golden
era of the newspaper comic strip, Ulysses can be newly discovered
in a delightfully unexpected form.
A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through
Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Alice is back in
Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down
into his rabbit hole in search of an illustrated edition of H. C.
Artmann's Frankenstein in Sussex. Over the course of the novel,
Alice repeatedly runs into the Rabbit, who quotes freely from other
literary works by the likes of Herman Melville and E. M. Cioran.
Unlike in Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice is not traveling the
Wonderland we know. Rather, in Nicolas Mahler's whimsical graphic
novel retelling, she is in a house deep beneath the ground. On
subsequent floors, she encounters the famous creations of Lewis
Carroll: the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock
Turtle, and many others. One after the other, these creatures
address the terrors of childhood and youth. It is only when Alice
reaches the ground floor of the house that we arrive at the
inevitable climax: face to face with Frankenstein's Monster.
A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told
through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel
Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works
of French literature-if not the most important. Reading it can be
life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comic is not a retelling of this
classic, nor a shortened version of Proust's monumental work.
Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically
disrespectful of the celebrated work yet completely permeated by
Proustian spirit. Complemented by his clear and sparse
illustrations, Mahler's minimal nature of text use is easy on the
eye, even for those uninitiated into graphic novels. For long-time
fans of graphic novels, it is a perfect entry into a beloved
literary classic. A compact picture stream through time and space,
Mahler's In Search of Lost Time is a brilliantly complex house of
mirrors replete with Proustian motives and perceptions.
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel
Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like
what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the
story of Kant--and his fellow serious-minded figures from the
history of philosophy--with a comic edge. With his witty visual
style and clever wordplay, he delves into their lives and emerges
with hitherto unknown scenes that show them in a new (and far less
serious) light. We go to parties with Kant, visit an art exhibition
with Hegel, shop at the supermarket with Nietzsche, and go to the
cinema with Deleuze, and celebrate the dream wedding with de
Beauvoir. In each case, we come away knowing more about the life,
thoughts, and feelings of the philosopher--getting to know them as
people rather than as stony-faced figures long since robbed of any
existence beyond their ideas. The result is pure fun, but with
plenty of insight, too.
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Old Masters - A Comedy (Paperback)
James Reidel; Thomas Bernhard; Illustrated by Nicolas Mahler
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Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable
novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that
takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded
Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically
Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself)
irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society,
state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book
built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals.
Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has
brought it to life in graphic form and it's brilliant. This volume
presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new
translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a
version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to
Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition
that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think
about let alone behold.
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