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Lädt ... Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky (Original 2016; 2018. Auflage)von Agustín Comotto (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. Very difficult to read on a Kindle, but even harder to find a copy in print, at least in the libraries I frequent. Set in the early 20th century, this is a biography of Simon Radowwitzky, an anarchist Jew who fled the czar's Cossacks in the Ukraine, becoming estranged from his immediate family and separated from his girlfriend. He ended up in Argentina, where he assassinates Colonel Falcon, who order the slaughter of protesting works, subsequently spending 20 years being tortured in prison. Pressure from fellow citizens eventually secured his release, and he emigrated to get involved in the Spanish Civil War. I liked the darkness of the artwork because it was so appropriate, and Simon's imagined consultations with his girlfriend in prison (to remain sane), but struggled with the story itself and skipping timelines. While Simon was portrayed as a friend of the worker, I did not see much to substantiate his idealistic views on anarchy. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Simón Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world. The author/illustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016. Radowitzky appears in a few books (recently The Anarchist Expropriators and Rebellion in Patagonia--both from AK Press), but this is the first English-language book devoted solely to him. His tumultuous life begins with his immigration from Ukraine to Argentina, followed by his assassination of Colonel Falcon (who presided over the slaughter of 100 workers) in 1909. Banished to a penal colony, he escaped, was recaptured and tortured, serving a total of twenty years. Upon release he joined the Spanish Revolution, after which he decamped for Mexico, where he died in 1956 while employed at a toy factory. Stuart Christie, author of Granny Made Me an Anarchist, introduces the AK Press edition. "While Radowitzky's story has been told ... it has never been told in quite the way Agustín Comotto tells it. Through a series of flashbacks [Prisoner 155] examines the agonies and survival of an exceptional individual." --Guardian "Comotto'sPrisoner 155 is, in my view, a truly great work, comparable to Art Spiegelman'sMaus and Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis, rich with complexity and ambiguity, and whose shy and sensitive central character, a committed humanist imbued with a deep sense of justice who never expressed regret for the two lives he took, remains an enigma. He was one of countless men and women, the salt of the earth, most of them anonymous, who chose to resist against an unjust, class-ridden society in the hope of building a better world for humanity." --Stuart Christie, from the foreword Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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