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Theatre of Cruelty
by Marc Tessier & Alexander Lafleur
Tessier and Lafleur's debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics collects four striking stories each prefaced with an original tarot card illustration. "The Sleeping Heart," "The Theatre of Cruelty," "The Lovers," and "To Chandra from Surya" filter autobiographical fragments through the dream world, plumbing the depths of the psyche, mining the mythology of our collective unconscious. Written and drawn over a five-year period, each tale in The Theatre Of Cruelty is a rollercoaster ride through hell and heaven, fueled by a quest to capture the truth through the power of imagination.
b&w, 80pg
Tessier and Lafleur's debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics collects four striking stories each prefaced with an original tarot card illustration. "The Sleeping Heart," "The Theatre of Cruelty," "The Lovers," and "To Chandra from Surya" filter autobiographical fragments through the dream world, plumbing the depths of the psyche, mining the mythology of our collective unconscious. Written and drawn over a five-year period, each tale in The Theatre Of Cruelty is a rollercoaster ride through hell and heaven, fueled by a quest to capture the truth through the power of imagination.
b&w, 80pg
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
88 pages, Paperback
First published September 2, 1997
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July 20, 2016
hindu-feminist graphic novel! wow!
July 30, 2010
As I am cataloguing my graphic novels this afternoon, I find myself writing "my favorite gn ever" on more than one review. I really mean it on this one.
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