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Poema Em Quadrinhos (2010)

by Dino Buzzati(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8575039490 (ISBN13: 9788575039496)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Cosac Naif

review 1: There are many that might say a Cinemax-porn, rock star laden, Italian, book-length, psychedelic comic book from 1969 is not their thing. Or they might think it is their thing and then they see it's a thin reselling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the one where the egocentric singer gets to visit the land of the dead to retrieve his lover and they botch the escape from hell at the gate to the living world, and that kills it for them. You might offer that it's a European pop star, but no one likes European pop stars. You could try telling them it's like an abstract foreign film, but mot people don't like those either. You could say, "Say 'Dino Buzzati' and tell me you don't want to read something by a guy named Dino Buzzati!" But they've probably walked away by now and yo... moreu're left holding this curious tome with no one to offer it to. Like Orpheus, your brief sojourn in POEM STRIP's shadow/dream hell was all for naught. Nobody wants to hear about it. Nobody wants to visit hell. Unless they do, then you can say "I have a book for you!"
review 2: Ehhh I didn't care for this much. At some points it was poetic and some of the illustrations were really gorgeous. At other times I felt like I was just reading a badly written mythological adaptation, the purpose of which seemed to be the objectification of women and the dehumanization of female sexuality. Ew. Maybe I was reading into it too much. But am I the only one who noticed that when the jacket was naming off women to Orfi, that the black woman was not given a name (pg 95)? All the others, although presented simply as sexual objects, were at least given the privilege of a name. The black woman is simply referred to as "a black girl" (not even "woman"). The highly sexualized images (to what purpose?) already had me skeptical. But after the nameless black woman panel, there was a bitter taste in my mouth that I just couldn't get rid of while reading the rest of the book.The women here are presented as insatiable, one-dimensional, sexual objects who lust after the cool, level-headed Orfi. He wards off all their advances and continues to pursue Eura, a character as one-dimensional as all the other female characters. Throughout the book, male figures are shown clothed while every single female character is completely naked or only partially dressed.I'm really not sure if this is supposed to be some kind of self-conscious parody of representations of female sexuality, or if it was trying to recreate and parody the stereotypical vixens in horror comics (as there are certainly elements of horror throughout the tale). Either way, I was disappointed by the depiction of women in this book. Female sexuality and sensuality can be portrayed explicitly without being disrespectful or dehumanizing. This book just wasn't able to do that, at all. less

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