my article for the fanzine on Lutes
comic is rarely given to history, even more rarely in recent times, except for that of Art Spiegelman's Maus, a pedagogical work to explain the Holocaust through a community of mice.
And it is undeniable that from Maus, and only work with all elements of the novel and film copyrights, starts with The City of Rocks, which Spiegelman takes a step forward towards a more realistic and courageous history.
Although the European comics scene is by far surpassed by the American school, our designers who look more to the east or to members of the pulp stage, should learn the lesson of these two American designers who have gutted the European culture ' 900, assimilating and making her own Berlin has never been told with the same effectiveness from the eyes of an American author, moreover, was born forty years after the events narrated. Hardly authors are in the old continent the awareness of the multiplicity of cultural and artistic trends that have impacted against the second world war and that after this, were lost.
Lutes The lesson for us Europeans, this work contained in the processing of which has lasted five years, is a warning not to forget the huge feature that Europe brings with it and have a wealth of essential identity , from the time when the cultural diversity in the continent has found his greatest progess, and it is strange to recall now that is really an American. Is not the same skill in the reconstruction of the details in any other contemporary work and an equally well-made historical conspevolezza: without too many engraved the author is a two-year period 1927-29 in Berlin, accessible even to those who does not know too much history.
And the many souls that make up the German society during the Weimar Republic, at the dawn of Hitler's rise to the Chancellery, live again through the different cultural backgrounds, social classes, expectations and ideals of the characters that intertwine in harmony perfect throughout the course of more than 200 pages of this little slice of history. The section in China is minimal but the sculpted features and essences of the characters in the game, but without doing justice to the beauty special grooves in the sufferings of a country to hunger after a decade the end of World War II, a trait that is not by chance remember the cartoons in some of Daumier lithographs of social report, a representative of French realism of the late '800.
a republic and a political class that has been a tremendous cultural freedoms and has encouraged the emergence of a new breed intellectual in Germany for decades the victim of a dark and fatalistic nationalism: the Academy of Berlin in which moves of the characters , Cabaret, the liberation of female sexuality, the role of writers and journalists working to hold the prestige of the institutions which guarantee this order despite the severe economic crisis and growing social context. Lutes does not fall into the error of many Americans in recounting the clash between communism and Nazism and the ideals of justice and anger of the working class, moving the cross-section in which workers find themselves clandestinely at night to commemorate the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in front of the famous home of the German Communist Party. A Republic under attack from two fronts, that of the Communists and the Nazis who occupied the streets hard slowly collides head and swallowing the weak isituzioni the country overwhelmed by the Wall Street crisis of 1929. It is in that city of the stones used as weapons in the clashes, the dish of this graphic novel closes on 1 May 1929 where all our characters find themselves, with roles different way, by choice or by chance to come to terms with history.
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