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La linea retta, invece, è del tutto assente nella personalissima geometria di Ruben, giovane e velleitario artista italiano. I had to go back and reread the plot synopsis to understand why the HELL there was a scene with 9/11 of all things! Klar, Themen und Settings sind spannend, aber die Charaktere bleiben in diesem eher kurzen Buch zu flach, um sie wirklich lieben lernen zu können.

The ending kind of threw me though, I sort of expected something different I guess, or maybe a bit more tension. This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offer.It seems to be a rumination on the connection between the past and the future -- the latter symbolized by the 9/11 attack, which ends the book. This is a Berlin that doesn't fully exist anymore—where the squatters haven't been evicted, and you can tell the former East and West Berlin by the smell of coal, and war-torn (and Soviet) buildings are still being torn down and rebuilt. Blurb: It's 2001, and Teresa, a young Italian suffering from insomnia and a generally fragile state of mind, has just arrived in Berlin with a grant to help organize an exhibit of Tutankhamen's treasure. The archeological vibes were on point, and there was peace in the desert paintings while waiting for the tomb to reveal its secrets.

m., at the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin, Manuele Fior, one of the most outstanding contemporary comics authors, presents his new graphic novel Hypericon (Coconino 2022), which tells the delicate love story between Teresa and Ruben in 1990s Berlin. E non è un caso se è stata scelta proprio lei, come assistente scientifica per l’allestimento della grande mostra a Berlino del tesoro di Tutankhamen. For him, as for many of his contemporaries, Berlin in the late 1990s is a magical labyrinth in which getting lost is easy and fun. Europe Comics was launched in 2015 in an effort by European publishers of graphic novels to more attention from the English-language market, and it’s unfortunate that they have just announced that they are shutting down. One in which she's a hardworking and high achieving professional in her field; and another in which she's is living in a squat with a man named Ruben after meeting him on her first day in Berlin, and about whom she knows little, other than that his carefree and roaming spirit is the exact opposite of her's.Parts of this, then, I really liked, like the view of punk Berlin and the look at the excavation (in particular, I loved the way the tomb map repeats throughout the story, getting more detailed as the excavation team learns more). Teresa mostly slots right in, falling into this odd relationship that she tells us is unusual for her (and then setting about trying to make Ruben change into something more appropriate).

Teresa is goal-oriented and has always lived her life in a straight line, doing whatever she sets out to do. Wenn man (wie ich zur Zeit) in einem mittelschweren Reading Slump steckt, ist ja weniges angenehmer als die Lektüre einer richtig schönen Graphic Novel. Selten habe ich eine so schöne Graphic Novel gelesen - am liebsten würde ich mir jeden zweiten Frame in Postergröße ausdrucken und an die Wand hängen, thank you very much. The other story has an Italian woman named Teresa getting the opportunity of a lifetime to help an exhibition in Berlin of the Tutankhamen’s treasures in 2001.Among his titles, Le variazioni d’Orsay (Coconino press, 2015), I giorni della merla (Coconino press, 2016), Il grande amico (Rizzoli, 2013) by Alain-Fournier. After the contract has been fully executed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the expiry of any retention periods required by tax and commercial law, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes which are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration. And lastly, I'm guessing that the author intended there to be significance in Teressa finally overcoming her chronic insomnia and being able to sleep through the TV coverage of a major world event (no spoilers, but I'm sure that you can guess). Between the 2 archeological storylines, the romantic relationship, and the connecting asides, I found the book's elements to be somewhat competitive vs harmonious. Con Hypericon, come già fatto in Cinquemila chilometri al secondo, Manuele Fior ritorna a raccontare le vibrazioni della giovinezza, le inquietudini del cuore, i legami più forti dello scorrere del tempo.

I didn't really get their dynamic, or why Teressa continued the relationship throughout the graphic novel and into the epilogue.

I won't lie, I did sigh and think to myself "Here we go again with the French obsession with sex and shoving it in all of their comics". At the core, Teresa whose life has always been followed like "a long, very comfortable straight line, now finds herself detoured by a fellow Italian living abroad who lives a far more carefree and whimsical lifestyle. As it turns out, the art style doesn't really match the cover—the cover is far more detailed, realistic, and painting-like than most of the rest of the book. C’est l’occasion d’en découvrir plus sur la vie d’un archéologue au début du siècle dernier et d’en apprendre plus sur la découverte qui a bousculé le monde des archéologues.

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