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| Original Title: | Berlin: City of Stones, Book One |
| ISBN: | 1896597297 (ISBN13: 9781896597294) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Berlin #1, Berlin #vol. 1 |
| Setting: | Berlin(Germany) |
Jason Lutes
Paperback | Pages: 212 pages Rating: 3.94 | 5396 Users | 308 Reviews
Identify Of Books Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones (Berlin #1)
| Title | : | Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones (Berlin #1) |
| Author | : | Jason Lutes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 212 pages |
| Published | : | February 2001 by Drawn and Quarterly (first published June 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Germany |
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Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.Rating Of Books Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones (Berlin #1)
Ratings: 3.94 From 5396 Users | 308 ReviewsCommentary Of Books Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones (Berlin #1)
.??? 200os: the weimar republic in the roaring 20s- first volume in the best graphic series i have read.i have just reread this, rare to do so with graphics, but worth it. my knowledge of history of that time is primarily through narrative works like this, not studying, finding a sense of the times through historical fiction- movies, books, now graphics- that helps make something like sense of horror of the rise of hitler, the horror of antisemitism then, the horror of its use as a politicalLet me start this review exactly as I started my review of Lutes' Jar of Fools. Ahem. "Honestly, I don't know what all the hoopla is with Jason Lutes' Berlin, because Jar of Fools is where it's at."Not that Berlin is a terrible book by any means, it's just boring and uneventful most of the time. While this is just the beginning of what will be Lutes' trilogy on the Weimar republic and Germany in between wars, Book 1: City of Stones can be quite a frustrating read. It's essentially a mishmash of
Let me start this review exactly as I started my review of Lutes' Jar of Fools. Ahem. "Honestly, I don't know what all the hoopla is with Jason Lutes' Berlin, because Jar of Fools is where it's at."Not that Berlin is a terrible book by any means, it's just boring and uneventful most of the time. While this is just the beginning of what will be Lutes' trilogy on the Weimar republic and Germany in between wars, Book 1: City of Stones can be quite a frustrating read. It's essentially a mishmash of
From the description I was thinking this would be more Isherwood less Germany Civil War with fascism vs. communism. But that's what the library is for, to prove to me I don't need to buy graphic novels before taking them for a test run first! The characters are all loosely connected and are hard to tell apart because the drawing style has everyone looking almost the same, sometimes it's hard to even distinguish between male and female. Only towards the end, which I might add is an abrupt
Others have remarked upon how Lutes uses small, human stories to paint a picture of the final days of the Weimar Republic, and their thoughts on that matter are much more interesting than mine. I found myself, on the other hand, fascinated by the way Lutes shows tragedy and melancholy via distance - distance across time, space, emotional availability, and even ideology. He thematically grounds this by having one of the central characters, Marthe, enroll in art school. Marthe explicitly learns
"It will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in comics...this book has the density of the best novels." --Time "A book of impressive scope... full of novel combinations of text and pictures." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Pretty interesting read. Takes place in about a 6 months span between 1928-1929 in Berlin. Events and the lives of people during the switch of power from the Kaiser and to the Labour party. This was originally supposed to be a 3 books series, but the 3rd never came out, so I'm curious what happened. This takes me back to reading Maus, not sure because of a similar story, but a non-fiction story dealt in a very serious way. Though this deals with much less hardships than Maus did.
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