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Cargando... Contrato con Dios : la trilogía : la vida en la avenida Dropsie (2006)por Will Eisner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There is a tiny irony in the fact that when Will Eisner coined the phrase "graphic novel" in 1978 to describe his work A Contract with God, the book in question did not have the single plot of a unified novel. It was instead a set of four shorter narratives joined by a common setting at No. 55 Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx. The first of these is the properly-titled "A Contract with God," and it concerns the moral vicissitudes of a Jewish immigrant in New York. The other three stories center on a Depression-era "street singer," the building superintendent at No. 55, and a summer vacation season. The Contract with God Trilogy collects the original book with its two sequels, both of which fully merit the "graphic novel" label. The Life Force is a complex story centered on the carpenter Jacob Starkah, and taking place mostly in 1934. Dropsie Avenue spans more than a century of transformations of the Dropsie neighborhood, pulling the events together into a single tale of striving, corruption, and transformation. The Trilogy volume is supplied with a preface and some new interstitial art from Eisner. When he composed these pages, Eisner had already developed his techniques of visual storytelling to a high pitch, and throughout the work the characters and plots are presented with startling efficiency, while the compositions are striking and effective. The illustration is all in monochrome inks, presented in this handsome hardcover with uniform dark brown line art on ivory paper. All of these stories raise powerful moral and emotional concerns, leavening them with occasional humor. They also clearly incorporate a level of memoir that powerfully documents 20th-century cultural history for the Bronx. I read a copy borrowed from the local public library, and I strongly believe it deserves a place in such collections. [b: The Contract With God|861023|A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328363057s/861023.jpg|250281] is arguably the first example of a true 'graphic novel' as it was [a: Will Eisner|1642|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1202618782p2/1642.jpg] who first coined the phrase. He sought to tell stories through the mixture of text and visuals, but rather than the superhero or adventure stories popular at the time, he wished to delve into deeper questions. Questions of meaning, of dealing with grief and life itself. What he did with the medium was absolutely astonishing for its time, and holds up well now. He touched upon universal truths, and didn't shy away from topics that are shocking to this day. It's a beautiful piece of art, and a worthy classic. Like [b: Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442239711s/472331.jpg|4358649], [b: The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue|33472|The Contract With God Trilogy Life on Dropsie Avenue (The Contract With God Trilogy, #1-3)|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1324242014s/33472.jpg|48199417] could be called a graphic novel for people who generally don't like the medium. By defining the medium, it truly transcended it. [b: The Contract With God|861023|A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328363057s/861023.jpg|250281] is a series of stories about tenement living in the 30s. The titular story is about a Jewish man who is believed to be so good as to be favored by God. When he escapes his small town of Germany to go to America, he writes himself a contract with God... only years later, God breaks the contract. How do you live with that? What do you do? Next is a story of a street singer who nearly makes it big, only to squander the chance. Then the super of 55 Dropsie Avenue is looked at, and used by the schemings of the person you'd least suspect... The next volume in the trilogy is [b: A Life Force|60241|A Life Force|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327877159s/60241.jpg|1528062]. These stories follow the development of the Depression and its effect upon 55 Dropsie Avenue. The main thread that these stories follow is that of "Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life". Jacob, recently laid off after having helped build a shul, wonders what it is that separates man from the cockroach. We both feel the deep life force, the need for living. Are we better than the cockroach, or are we just living without purpose? Did Man create God or did God create Man? These threads are followed through the Depression as people's position rise and fall... Finally, [b: Dropsie Avenue|123911|Dropsie Avenue The Neighborhood|Will Eisner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348793059s/123911.jpg|3158742] is the beautiful biography of that block itself from inception to modern day. The neighborhood rises and falls, but it's the people who make it up and their connections are surprisingly beautiful. This story deals with the goodness in people, in spite of the troubles and ills that befall them. It's a gorgeous trilogy, beautifully illustrated and lovingly written. A deserved classic strong as it was when first published even now. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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La trilogía reúne escenas cotidianas que suceden en un barrio de la periferia de Nueva York (el Bronx de los años 30): el día a día, conseguir tirar hacia delante a pesar de las dificultades, las pequeñas alegrías. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Will Eisner (1917–2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be liberated from their stultifying comic-book format.
More than a quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City.
As the dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord; it is on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom; and it is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved super’s dog before doing in the super as well.
In the second book, A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be "a masterpiece," Eisner re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle. Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck.
Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents―the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans―whose faces changed yet whose lives presented an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection."
The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of a universal American experience and Eisner’' most poignant and enduring literary legacy.