As much as I enjoyed Seymour Chwast's treatment of Dante's Divine Comedy, his Canterbury Tales never comes to life. Perhaps the success of Chwast's Divine Comedy was due to the inherently graphic nature of much of the Commedia and the sparseness of the comic's text—Chwast's Divine Comedy is somethin...
Seymour Chwast's graphic novel is a thoroughly enjoyable companion piece to Dante's Comedìa. It's the literary geek's equivalent to action figures, only with delicious irony and style and demanding fewer explanations for one's spouse. Chwast has given us a Divine Comic. [Pre-recorded groans go here....
Meh. I was kind of bored and disappointed by this book. Chwast's adaptation of Canterbury Tales seems really simplistic to me, with drawings that didn't capture my attention or give me any feel for the story. I liked his Dante a lot more and I thought the black and white presentation really didn't d...
This is really cool and I want it.I haven't had time to read through the whole thing, but I've flipped through and looked at all the pictures. I just think it's a brilliant concept and a great companion to my literary tastes.It's something that would be lovely to have sitting on my shelf so I could ...
Okay, I've been reading The Graphic Canon, looking for a reason for it to exist. It contains abridgements or excerpts of tons of terrific stories, from Gilgamesh to Les Liaisons Dangereuses, in comic book format. But who cares about abridgements or excerpts? To whom are they useful?I started, as pro...
not for me at this time, heh
I can't think of anything bad to say about this. It was great. Hilarious, quick to get through, entertaining... It was great! I won this book from Goodreads First Reads giveaways and I am so glad I did, though I would have probably purchased it had I not won a copy.
A graphic novel that could serve as a cliff notes to the original "Divine Comedy," but brings nothing of its own to the table. The only creative license is to update the clothing to something more modern, like from the 1930's and 40's, but it doesn't add to anything. Unfortunately, the simplicity of...
An odd book. I like that the second and third canticles get equal attention (or is it equal inattention?) in this book. As an adaptation, it's incomplete and flighty, yet filled with what amount to amusing little in-jokes for anyone with a reasonable familiarity with Dante. A mixture of offbeat succ...
(Won from First Reads.)There are some wonderful visual images in this book, but on the whole, I was underwhelmed. The story is a bare bones summary of the plot of the original, which I found pretty hard to follow. The real body of the work is the pen & ink illustrations, which use archtypal images ...
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