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The Cage
Graphic novel.
Published
1975
by Coach House Press
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This 1975 "visual novel" offers a unique collision of words and images. Imagine an Alain Robbe-Grille novel illustrated by Roland Torpor (Fantastic Planet, etc) and you're partway there. Or perhaps an architectural manual storyboarded by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Deeply cryptic and evocative of something or other.
Possibly the best thing I've read all year.
SECOND READING, 2009
Having read all of Martin Vaughn-James's graphic works since reading this, I am pleased to discover this is still his masterpiece. The best thing to say about the text (which is still mostly impenetrable, but in a really pleasant way) would be to compare it to Philippe Sollers. It's beautiful language, and the images never fail to disappoint. Characters in the traditional sense are completely absent here, and it's a wonderful thing.
SECOND READING, 2009
Having read all of Martin Vaughn-James's graphic works since reading this, I am pleased to discover this is still his masterpiece. The best thing to say about the text (which is still mostly impenetrable, but in a really pleasant way) would be to compare it to Philippe Sollers. It's beautiful language, and the images never fail to disappoint. Characters in the traditional sense are completely absent here, and it's a wonderful thing.
This was basically an art book with captions. It was interesting to a point, but goes a bit too long on the same course. I should come back to it at some point probably.
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