Sei tu mia madre?
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788817058667 (8817058661)
Publish date: October 31st 2012
Publisher: Rizzoli Lizard
Pages no: 304
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Glbt,
Queer
A departure, in both art and story telling, that failed. This was a huge waste of time to read. Content wise, it was filled with the author's self-absorption and neurosis that was tied with Woolf and a bunch of mid-century psychoanalysis mumbo-jumbo. Honestly, the story was more about the author's r...
The latest foray into the realms of the graphic novel led me to Bechdel's autobiographical works about her parents. Fun Home, the earlier of the two books, describes her growing up and relationship with her father. Without going into much of the plot and issues, Fun Home offers an exploration into...
As an autobiographical sequel to Fun Home, Bechdel’s approach to analysing her relationship with her mother couldn’t be more different to how she examined the one with her father. If you have a problem with dry psychoanalysis, then you may struggle with Are You My Mother? Continue reading →
A good companion to Fun Home. I would recommend reading Fun Home first though this one can stand on its own.
It is impossible not to compare this to Bechdel’s phenomenal Fun Home, as you will quickly gather by looking at any other review. I, like many, many others still prefer the paired-down, slightly distanced power of Fun Home to this much more introspective and solipsistic approach, but when you get do...
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