Written by Fabien Nury | Art by Brüno | Published by Statix Press/Titan Comics | Format: Hardcover, 88pp
Fabien Nury, the acclaimed artist who brought us the phenomenal The Death of Stalin a couple of years ago, collaborates once again with Brüno, with Atar Gull, or the Tale of a Modern Slave. This is based on the 1831 novel by Eugène Sue and is set during the times of slavery. The story, split into four parts, takes us from an introduction to Atar Gull as a young man, and through a prologue, two acts and an epilogue, we witness his life and the enslavement, violence and cruelty surrounding it.
This is, indeed, a very tragic tale, both unsettling and not particularly “enjoyable” in the traditional sense of that word. It takes the theme of slavery and with that aforementioned tragedy, revenge and an attempt to show the humanity in the situation, and not...
Fabien Nury, the acclaimed artist who brought us the phenomenal The Death of Stalin a couple of years ago, collaborates once again with Brüno, with Atar Gull, or the Tale of a Modern Slave. This is based on the 1831 novel by Eugène Sue and is set during the times of slavery. The story, split into four parts, takes us from an introduction to Atar Gull as a young man, and through a prologue, two acts and an epilogue, we witness his life and the enslavement, violence and cruelty surrounding it.
This is, indeed, a very tragic tale, both unsettling and not particularly “enjoyable” in the traditional sense of that word. It takes the theme of slavery and with that aforementioned tragedy, revenge and an attempt to show the humanity in the situation, and not...
- 9/16/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
With the film of Les Misérables on release and a Royal Academy exhibition opening, France's cultural giants and their views of the city take on a fresh importance
The iron gates of the short passageway, a stone's throw from the increasingly trendy Montorgueil district of Paris and a brief walk from the prostitutes of Saint Denis, are closed to the public these days. It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off the Rue du Bout du Monde – the end of the world road – that Victor Hugo is said to have sheltered between the stone pillars of the public baths and a ballroom of low repute from a raging battle between republican and monarchist forces on 5 June 1832. The gates were slammed shut then too, leaving the writer trapped in the crossfire.
A decade on, Hugo would use what he had heard and seen of the failed student uprising, known as the Republican Uprising,...
The iron gates of the short passageway, a stone's throw from the increasingly trendy Montorgueil district of Paris and a brief walk from the prostitutes of Saint Denis, are closed to the public these days. It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off the Rue du Bout du Monde – the end of the world road – that Victor Hugo is said to have sheltered between the stone pillars of the public baths and a ballroom of low repute from a raging battle between republican and monarchist forces on 5 June 1832. The gates were slammed shut then too, leaving the writer trapped in the crossfire.
A decade on, Hugo would use what he had heard and seen of the failed student uprising, known as the Republican Uprising,...
- 1/27/2013
- by Kim Willsher, Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Eamonn McCabe Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s favorite drink is a gin martini, on the rocks. The toothpick stabbed through two fat olives, he sets aside.
We meet at the Waldorf Astoria’s Peacock Alley Restaurant to discuss the English-language release of his latest novel, “The Prague Cemetery.” He strolls over to me with the help of a cane, which he lays flat on the right side of the table. The cane is a new purchase, after Eco irritated his...
Umberto Eco’s favorite drink is a gin martini, on the rocks. The toothpick stabbed through two fat olives, he sets aside.
We meet at the Waldorf Astoria’s Peacock Alley Restaurant to discuss the English-language release of his latest novel, “The Prague Cemetery.” He strolls over to me with the help of a cane, which he lays flat on the right side of the table. The cane is a new purchase, after Eco irritated his...
- 11/15/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Actor best known for her roles in Exodus and the Broadway musical Cabaret
The producer-director Otto Preminger had an eye for blue-eyed blondes, casting two complete unknowns, the 19-year-old Jean Seberg in Saint Joan (1957) and the 15-year-old Jill Haworth in Exodus (1960), with mixed results. In Preminger's rambling, all-things-to-all-people saga about the birth of Israel, Haworth, who has died aged 65, played Karen Hansen, a young Danish-Jewish girl searching for her father, from whom she was separated during the second world war. She falls in love with a radical Zionist (Sal Mineo), but is killed during a raid and buried in the same grave as an Arab, a symbol of reconciliation between the two peoples. Despite a phoney accent and the fact that she had never acted previously, Haworth was cute and touching in the significant role.
She then appeared in two more of Preminger's overstretched epics on huge subjects: The Cardinal...
The producer-director Otto Preminger had an eye for blue-eyed blondes, casting two complete unknowns, the 19-year-old Jean Seberg in Saint Joan (1957) and the 15-year-old Jill Haworth in Exodus (1960), with mixed results. In Preminger's rambling, all-things-to-all-people saga about the birth of Israel, Haworth, who has died aged 65, played Karen Hansen, a young Danish-Jewish girl searching for her father, from whom she was separated during the second world war. She falls in love with a radical Zionist (Sal Mineo), but is killed during a raid and buried in the same grave as an Arab, a symbol of reconciliation between the two peoples. Despite a phoney accent and the fact that she had never acted previously, Haworth was cute and touching in the significant role.
She then appeared in two more of Preminger's overstretched epics on huge subjects: The Cardinal...
- 1/13/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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