on the shelf. 01: Mignola / Golden, Baltimore take advantage of the "blog this item" from aNobii to create a new label and fill the chasms between a post and 'more ...
POST-GOTHIC ...
A pleasant surprise. I know and love Mignola's comic book for years (with the adaptation that he did with Howard Chaykin a handful of short stories by Leiber featuring swordsmen / thieves Fafhrd and Gray Mouser has earned my eternal gratitude ...) . For attracted me was the cover: hard not to recognize the style of Mignola and the melancholy figure of a hunter Ahab thrown there by way 'of bait I could not be sucked into the maelstrom.
The novel rattles off like a remake of "gothic novel", a string of stories embedded in the crown around the main story, in tribute to the literary tradition of the genre and its subsequent developments (Stoker first, but not only ...). Rewriting a successful and very well translated (so to ear ... without having to hand the original text). Enjoyed reading and stubbornly sought in the few spare moments of this period ... because they bind the events and characters, necessarily "relief" (Such as the distinctive characteristic trait of Mignola graphic designer ...), despite the win (in fact, precisely because of) their simplicity stereotypical. At least up to five pages from the end, where you get the impression that the needs of publishing an open ending and after serialization has ferociously gobbled up the final "MobyDick" that the story deserved ...