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S'està carregant… Stitches: A Memoir (2009)de David Small
  
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 Too much setup, not enough payoff.  It is one thing for an artist to credit his career choice to an unhappy youth in which opportunities for self-expression were perpetually stifled, and quite another for an artist to say that his parents literally took his voice from him. That, however, is the story of David Small’s life as he tells it in “Stitches,” a graphic memoir, which comes out this week.  Graphic in every sense of the word, Small's masterfully drawn memoir will arrest readers from the very first cell. The shaded artwork, composed mostly of ink washes, is both evocative and beautifully detailed. Like other “important” graphic works it seems destined to sit beside—think no less than Maus—this is a frequently disturbing, pitch-black funny, ultimately cathartic story whose full impact can only be delivered in the comics medium, which keeps it palatable as it reinforces its appalling aspects.
The prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood fromhell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operationto discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. Avocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like abloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that hehad throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winningchildren's author, re-creates a life story that might have beenimagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey fromspeechless victim, subjected to X-rays by his radiologist fatherand scolded by his withholding and tormented mother, to hisdecision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreamsof becoming an artist. Recalling Running with Scissors withits ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost,Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alikewith its deeply liberating vision. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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La història està explicada en primera persona sota el punt de vista del David a diferents edats: sis anys, 11 anys, 14 anys i mig,... així que no tot té perquè necessariament haver succeït d'aquesta manera, però sí és la manera com ell ho va viure. La seva és una història dura i cruel, però en cap moment està explicada de manera venjativa. El nivell de comprensió que destil.la el llibre ja desde la primera part fa que el lector es volqui en el David, el vulgui protegir. Voldríem que la història es desenvolupés d'una altra manera però no es pot deixar de passar pàgines.
Els dibuixos estan al nivell de la història: aquest no es un llibre agradable i els dibuixos tampoc ho són. Res de trassos ben definits o cares arrodonides i simpàtiques. No hi ha un abús de part escrita i molta informació la rebem a partir de les imatges. A estones semblen fotogrames d'una pel.lícula de dibuixos animats.
Molt recomenable. (