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Mariner Books (2021), 224 pagina's
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
1984 is one of those books that is stuffed full of important concepts but is so dreary and dull to read. This adaptation captures that perfectly, packing in all the important stuff through giant captions and 14 pages of straight text (talk about giving up!) and draping it all over drab art colored
Winston's government job of literally rewriting history does pair nicely with a book I read recently, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, that shows the results of Stalin executing his real and imagined enemies and having them scribbled, airbrushed, and cropped out of photos in the official archives.
Side note: This adaptation was originally published in Brazil with a translated text but has been republished in English drawing directly from Orwell's original text.
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only in murky shades of gray and burnt orange. It's all so bleak, but necessary to revisit regularly.Winston's government job of literally rewriting history does pair nicely with a book I read recently, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, that shows the results of Stalin executing his real and imagined enemies and having them scribbled, airbrushed, and cropped out of photos in the official archives.
Side note: This adaptation was originally published in Brazil with a translated text but has been republished in English drawing directly from Orwell's original text.
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LibraryThing member pomo58
George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Matyáš Namai, is a powerful version of the classic novel and succeeds in far more ways than it falls short.
I look at graphic versions of well-known novels in much the same way that I look at movies of such novels. There is a lot that the
I think this graphic version found a good middle ground. The atmosphere, the sense of hopelessness that pervades much of the novel is made explicit through the artwork. There are a few places where words are used more heavily than some might prefer. Without it though the arguments of the book would be almost totally absent. Certainly a reader of the original can fill in the blanks, much as we would with a movie. But those new to the novel in any form need some of the exposition. If it "slows" you down then maybe you don't actually like to read and just like pretty pictures. It is still a novel, the graphic nature can only replace so much of the linguistic.
I would recommend this to those who like to revisit classics but might find a different approach a little more compelling. I am not sure about those who haven't read Orwell, it will likely motivate some to read the novel to get what is glossed over here but it may well keep some others from picking it up since they will feel they have already "read" it. All in all, I think the volume is a success, I just hope it makes more readers want to read the novel, as well as other similar works.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
I look at graphic versions of well-known novels in much the same way that I look at movies of such novels. There is a lot that the
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visual aspect can bring that might work better than the pure linguistic form, but there is always a lot of the depth found in the exposition that can't easily be captured visually. For me, I want to get the feel, for lack of a better term, of the original. In a dark novel atmosphere is a big part. I think it is a bit disingenuous to complain that the graphic novel didn't cover every philosophical and political nuance, of course it didn't. Neither does any film version. That isn't news to anyone. It is equally disingenuous to think the graphic version can catch the nuance but failed to do so, some things simply require exposition to convey.I think this graphic version found a good middle ground. The atmosphere, the sense of hopelessness that pervades much of the novel is made explicit through the artwork. There are a few places where words are used more heavily than some might prefer. Without it though the arguments of the book would be almost totally absent. Certainly a reader of the original can fill in the blanks, much as we would with a movie. But those new to the novel in any form need some of the exposition. If it "slows" you down then maybe you don't actually like to read and just like pretty pictures. It is still a novel, the graphic nature can only replace so much of the linguistic.
I would recommend this to those who like to revisit classics but might find a different approach a little more compelling. I am not sure about those who haven't read Orwell, it will likely motivate some to read the novel to get what is glossed over here but it may well keep some others from picking it up since they will feel they have already "read" it. All in all, I think the volume is a success, I just hope it makes more readers want to read the novel, as well as other similar works.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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Language
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English
Original publication date
2020 (Brazil)
Physical description
224 p.; 10 inches
ISBN
0358359929 / 9780358359920