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The Book of Genesisby R. Crumb
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This eagerly awaited graphic work retells the first book of the Bible in a profoundly honest way. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured its most dramatic stories, R. Crumb — using the actual text word for word — has imagined the Bible as it really was. Now, readers of every persuasion — Crumb fans, comic book lovers, history buffs, and believers — can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, visceral, and even juicy stories. Crumb's The Book of Genesis reintroduces readers to Adam and Eve's Eden, Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Pharaoh's Egypt. Using clues from the text, Crumb fleshes out the parade of biblical originals: from the sensitive dreamer Joseph to the crafty Jacob, to the still-fetching Sarah, to God Himself. The result, four years in the making, is a tapestry of extraordinary detail, the finest work of Crumb's legendary career. Review:"Far removed from the satirical reimagining some might expect from the father of underground comix, Crumb's long-awaited take on the first book of the Bible presents the artist's own sensitive, visually intense reflections. Where most visual adaptations edit down their prose sources, Crumb has, strikingly, included every word of the Book of Genesis within his first major book-length work. His humanistic visual response to this religious text imbues even briefly mentioned biblical characters with unique faces and attitudes, and his renderings of the book's more storied personalities draw out momentous emotions inspired by the book's inherent drama. Throughout, Genesis is a virtual portfolio of Crumb's career-long effort to instill fluid cartoon drawing with carefully rendered lifelike detail. Some might miss Crumb's full stylistic and tonal range, but the source's narrative sweep includes moments of sex and scandal that recall the artist's more notorious comics. Indeed, this monumental visual adaptation's basic strategy may subvert simply by demanding a reconsideration of its source, one that continues to motivate the complex cultural struggles that have, for decades, preoccupied this master cartoonist's landmark work." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"Crumb's vivid visual characterizations of the myriad characters, pious and wicked, make the most striking impression. His distinctive, highly rendered drawing style imparts a physicality that few other illustrated versions of this often retold chronicle have possessed." Booklist (starred review) Review:"We could not expect less from the patriarch of underground comix....Indeed, Crumb's muscular, detailed black-and-white seems ideally suited to Old Testament scuffles and seaminess." Library Journal (starred review) Review:"[A] tribute to Crumb's immense talents as a draftsman and stubborn adherence to the script. An erudite and artful, though frustratingly restrained, look at Old Testament stories." Kirkus Reviews Review:"[T]he beauty of The Book of Genesis Illustrated [is] how perfectly Crumb's style fits the material.... Indeed, the power of The Book of Genesis Illustrated resides in Crumb's decision to play it straight, to frame this ancient creation myth on its own enduring terms." Los Angeles Times Synopsis:From the Creation to the death of Joseph, here is the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before.
About the Authorborn in Philadelphia, R. Crumb is the author of numerous comic works and one of the pioneers of underground comics. He lives in the south of France with his wife and daughter. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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