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S'està carregant… Uncomfortably Happily (edició 2017)de Yeon-Sik Hong (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I was a little worried that this book would be really frustrating because the author/protagonist is a mid-30s straight dude cartoonist (who married a woman who was formerly his student) who spends about half of the book freaking out about his career and not being able to Provide As A Husband Should. This is a formula that often leaves me either bored or furious, but Hong writes with such self-awareness and grace that it really worked for me. Also, this is one of the most realistic/relatable/compelling depictions of what it's like to live with and work alongside people as artists that I've read in a long while. Hong's focus on real, grounded detail--from detailing the exhausting stress of being an underemployed artist to the attention paid to the near-daily commutes up and down the mountain to the mountain's changing landscape in different season--lends the book both urgency and a gentle rhythm. ( ) A pair of artists move to a rural mountain home and overcome various struggles. Very enjoyable, interesting, charming. Also a little upsetting at times — it's not all bucolic happiness. Nice mix of very detailed, rendered art, and more impressionistic surreal sequences. Some of those sequences, dealing with the author's struggling to deal with the pressures on him, didn't quite land for me, but overall it was very effective. Recommended, though be prepared it gets a little dark at times. I probably would never have picked this up except for the #koreanmarch challenge. I hadn't ever heard of it before, but I showed up to the library looking to find every author with a Korean last name and stumbled on this one. It won me over completely. This is very long and sometimes slow, but in a way that serves the story it is telling. A young married couple moves to the country to save money and distractions while they work on their graphic novel projects, and they end up more isolated than they expected. They throw themselves into gardening, dodging his editor, landscaping, and yelling at people outside for littering. So, big social distancing mood. (I read this the second weekend of pandemic lockdown in Michigan). There are also some charming little moments of the shared language and weirdnesses of a newly married couple that I really loved. This was ideal COVID-reading for me, and I was so happy to have found it. In this graphic novel memoir, comic artist Yeon-sik Hong recounts his and his young wife's adventures in 2006-7 moving from Seoul to live in the countryside. I say "adventures," but it certainly wasn't all fun and games. Hong portrays the difficulties of money woes, two creative people pursuing their dreams, and his own anger issues and challenges trying to keep up with everything. I could relate to his stress of learning a new place and figuring out the budget. There were moments of happiness too: exploring the area, swimming in the mountain lake, growing a garden. A different sort of slice-of-life memoir that was real and relatable. Yes, childless artist-couples struggle with adversity trying to achieve a balance between what they must do to survive and what they love. This fairly long graphic novel documents these protagonists as they struggle to live an existence that forsakes convenience for the mare clearly demarcated line between necessity and bliss that exists in a wilderness setting. My first impulse was to call this novel "charming" or "cute" (which it is abundantly), but there is a good deal of darkness, especially on the part of the husband as he, almost literally, wrestles with his demons. The upshot, I guess, is that, as humans, we are all traumatized, injured and, as such, subject to emotional struggle, stress, and yearnings we don't fully understand. To distill what is important we must tame our own wilderness. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Inspired by Yeon-sik Hong's attempt to move to the country with his partner, Uncomfortably happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent, our narrator and his wife know they must make a change. Convinced the absence of traffic noise will ease his writer's block, our pair welcomes the idea of building a life from scratch. Deciding on a home atop an uninhabited mountain, they excitedly embrace the charms of their new rural existence. From tending to the land and attempting grocery runs through snow, to the complexities of fighting depression in seclusion, the move does not immediately prove to be the golden ticket they'd hoped for, and the silence of the mountain poses as much of an obstacle to output as the sirens of the city. Through it all, though, we see simple pleasures seep in and gain prominence over these commercial, and, often, comparatively trivial worries: the smell of the forest, the calming weight of enveloping snow, and the gratification of a stripped down life making art begin to muffle other concerns. Originally published in Korean to great acclaim and winning the Manhwa Today award, Uncomfortably, Happily uniquely explores our narrator's inner world. Hong propels the comic with gorgeously detailed yet simple art, sharing the story of two lives unfolding slowly, sometimes uncomfortably, yet ultimately, happily."-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)741.5The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, ComicsLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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