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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A quick but masterful graphic novel told as three short stories. The Werewolf at Dusk is about the changes an aging werewolf goes through. Still able to change at the full moon, yet hardly able to chase a squirrel or climb up stairs. A Walk in the Old City is about a shrink who loses his way at night. Attempting to psycho-analyze himself will not getting him out of the mess he stumbles across. The final story is The Tiger in Vogue which is a terrifyingly whimsical look at Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Unique and wonderful storytelling in that one. Fantastic illustrations grace the pages of all three stories. I wish it were longer! *reviewed from uncorrected eARC via netgalley** 3 short stories linked "by the dread of things internal," masterfully told in graphic format from award-winning author/illustrator David Small. An aging werewolf; a weary psychologist finds himself in a strange dream with giant spiders; a man in 1920s Berlin does not enjoy a theater act in which an actual tiger performs under the precariously dangerous control of Hitler. Unsurprisingly, the artwork is terrific and the stories compellingly told. I was hooked on David Small's books after reading Stitches. His graphic novels are amazing. This particular title has three stories, two adapted by other authors and one by David Small. I really liked them for the most part, but David's story is by far the best. The first story, Werewolf at Dusk, is by Lincoln Michel. It's about an aging werewolf who is unable to do what he used to. He's depressed that he can't hunt and kill like he could in his younger years. The second story is A Walking in the Old City. This is David Small's work. The artwork is great and the story is in David's style. It is about a psychiatrist who takes a walk in the city and gets lost. He comes across an elderly man who the psychiatrist thinks will save him. Things go awry and the psychiatrist finds that saving wasn't in the elderly man's plan. The last story is about Adolf Hitler and how he was able to control a tiger, which is a metaphor for the German people during WWII. It is called The Tiger in Vogue by Jean Ferry. I hope that David will come out with a new graphic that is all his own soon. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection are linked, as Small writes, by the dread of things internal. In the title story, an adaptation of Lincoln Michel's classic short piece, the dread is that of a man who has reached senility with something repellant in his nature. He--an impotent werewolf, no longer able to hunt--confronts the terror of obsolescence. What do I even look like now, he wonders, when the full moon draws out the wolf inside me? The specter of old age also haunts the semiautobiographical story "A Walk in the Old City." Brain matter cascades and spiders loom as a psychoanalyst, self-assured in his practice, wanders along empty streets, reality warping into the irrational with the insouciance of a dream. In the final story, a reinterpretation of Jean Ferry's "The Tiger in Vogue," this dreamscape gives way to the ominous environs of Berlin in the 1920s. When a peaceful evening at the music hall is interrupted by a garish surprise act, only the protagonist seems to notice. Yet he, too, is transfixed by the performance, watching as a little man with a moustache, pale skin, and tired eyes wills a tiger into submission. With its sharp lines and vibrant blues and oranges, the artwork recalls Edvard Munch's anguished The Scream, likewise capturing the moment--the dread--before disaster. As fluid as Japanese manga and rife with unsettling imagery, Werewolf at Dusk is a testament to the singular dark genius of David Small"--Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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"The Werewolf at Dusk" is a lament about aging from a werewolf who has passed into senior citizen status. The original version of Lincoln Michel's short story is available to read for free at Buzzfeed.
"A Walk in the Old City" is an annoying dream sequence that at least has a clever twist at the end.
"The Tiger in Vogue" is a depressing allegory about the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1920s Germany. It is adapted from a French short story by Jean Ferry from 1948.
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Contents: Introduction. The Beast Within -- The Werewolf at Dusk / Story by Lincoln Michel; adaptation and illustrations by David Small -- A Walk in the Old City / Story and illustrations by David Small -- The Tiger in Vogue / Story by Jean Ferry; adaptation and illustrations by David Small -- Author's Note on "The Tiger in Vogue" -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author ( )