A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language.
Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs -- used camera salesman, ferryman, and stone collector -- hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with.
Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.
##好到無語
評分##初讀感慨“原來漫畫也可以和小說一樣,可以現實主義”,再一想“藝術錶達的關鍵在於核心內容,形式就是可以多樣的”。柘植義春,漫畫藝術傢。
評分##好到無語
評分##好到無語
評分##“蒸發”。
評分"無能的人,就是在高度資本主義社會中,他的存在沒有目的和用處的人。" 並非真的無能,隻是他們的遁世與時代格格不入,被"如何養活自己"這個命題給逼到牆角.
評分"無能的人,就是在高度資本主義社會中,他的存在沒有目的和用處的人。" 並非真的無能,隻是他們的遁世與時代格格不入,被"如何養活自己"這個命題給逼到牆角.
評分##“蒸發”。
評分##多抓魚推薦後看的一本書,有一種閑適的舒適感