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Sto caricando le informazioni... Herge: The Man Who Created Tintindi Pierre Assouline
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One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies, and Steven Spielberg is presently adapting the stories for the big screen. Yet, despite Tintin's enduringpopularity, Americans know almost nothing about his gifted creator, Georges Remi - better known as Herge. Offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics, this is the first full biography of Herge available for an English-speaking audience. Born in Brussels in 1907, Herge began his career as a cub reporter, a profession he gave to his teenaged, world-traveling hero. But whereas Tintin was "fully formed, clear-headed, and positive," Assouline notes, his inventor was "complex, contradictory, inscrutable." For all his huge success -achieved with almost no formal training - Herge would say unassumingly of his art, "I was just happy drawing little guys, that's all." Granted unprecedented access to thousands of the cartoonist's unpublished letters, Assouline gets behind the genial public mask to take full measure of Herge's lifeand art and the fascinating ways in which the two intertwine. Neither sugarcoating nor sensationalizing his subject, he meticulously probes such controversial issues as Herge's support for Belgian imperialism in the Congo and his alleged collaboration with the Nazis. He also analyzes the underpinnings of Tintin - how the conception of the character as an asexual adventurer reflected Herge's love for the Boy Scouts as well as his Catholic mentor's anti-Soviet ideology - and relates the comic strip to Herge's own place within the Belgian middle class. A profound influence on a generation of artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the elusive figure of Herge comes to life in this illuminating biography - a deeply nuanced account that unveils the man and his career as never before. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In the past I have given Herge a pass for his collaboration during the war since I believed his actions did not in any way bolster the Nazi regime, but reading more details about his time at Le Soir and his continued support of collaborationists, right-wingers, and blackshirts after the war (even if it was just because they were his personal friends) makes me think differently. It's no surprise that during these years he turned away from representing political intrigue in the Tintin books and instead produced what I believe are his masterpieces of fantasy-adventure: the Crystal Balls and Unicorn double albums.
However, it is also heartbreaking to read about him as a man who was basically reviled by his beloved country in the wake of the war, but whose creation was adored as a quintessentially innocent symbol of Belgium. His celebrity reputation mixed with his less-than-salubrious personal life and deeply-felt religious and political crises must have put him through absolute torture. That he was able to keep working (however sporadically) despite bouts of clinical depression makes me even more thankful for the wonderful humor and adventure of the Tintin books.
A minor annoyance: the translator sometimes does not change the names of characters that are different in the French/English versions. He also does not use the published English translations when quoting dialogue but performs his own translations from Herge's French text. This results in inconsistencies with the English canon of Tintin and occasional confusion for the reader. (I have noticed that this occurs frequently with scholarly or nonfiction books about Herge/Tintin that have been translated from French.) (