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Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism
During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to be released at the same time as this omnibus, Berlin has more than 100,000 copies in print and is one of the high-water marks of the medium rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.
Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens-Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart.
The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations all these places come alive in Lutes' masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.
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"Lures tells a funny, sad, wonderful, tragic story about an amazing time and place. Berlin, in the late 20's, early 30's, was the cosmopolitan epicenter of a nation that had thrown off one set of chains (the Ancien Regime) and, for a moment, spread her wings. If course, doom is on the horizon but this work draws attention to both the folly and the hope."
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Berlin eBook Jason Lutes Reviews
- I heard the author interviewed on NPR about a year ago and waited for the book to be published. When it finally was finally available it was even more interesting and captivating than I had hoped. The only thing I would say is that I had planned to read it with my 13 year old daughter and I will probably invite her to read it, but will definitely want to talk with her about it while she's reading it. There's some pretty complex material (sexuality) that she'll need some guidance with processing. In other words, just because it's a graphic novel, don't let it fool you into thinking that it's for a younger audience-- if anything this book merits extra support for adolescent readers.
- Berlin is a complex, interesting, and captivating graphic novel. The edition, however, is a problem. The book should have been printed in a larger size page, sometimes the font size is so small that is hard to read. The book is very heavy, should have been issued as a soft copy, larger size.
- I bought this book because my public library hadn't got it yet, because reviews in the New York Review of Books and in Foreign Affairs whetted my appetite, because it tells stories from an historical period that fascinates me (Weimar Germany); because the auteur is spectacularly skillful in evoking the time, and is remarkably sensitive to the diversity of interests active then and there, and because the whole scenario is in a deep sense relevant to our times. Oh-- and was selling it for an amazingly low price. Very highest recommendation!
- If it weren't for the medium, we'd be heralding "Berlin" as the greatest literary achievement of the young21st century. It reads like a lost work of Thomas Mann filtered through the artistic aesthetic of Los Bros Hernandez.
- Well illustrated and written book on life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. This is great historical fiction!
- I do not usually read graphic novels but I read a review of Berlin and decided to try it. This book is an excellent story of the city in the 1920s-1930s. This shows the different aspects of society and the rise of political factions. This is adult material well portrayed.
- It's like reading a movie.....a really good movie....
- Lures tells a funny, sad, wonderful, tragic story about an amazing time and place. Berlin, in the late 20's, early 30's, was the cosmopolitan epicenter of a nation that had thrown off one set of chains (the Ancien Regime) and, for a moment, spread her wings. If course, doom is on the horizon but this work draws attention to both the folly and the hope.
