The contract with God trilogy

498 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 15 de Enero de 2005 por W.W. Norton.

ISBN:: 978-0-393-06105-5
Número OCLC:: 61424936

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This book joins three works by Will Eisner, all set around Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx (New York). (1) Contract with God (1978), comprising four independent brief stories. (2) A Life Force (1988), which follows events in Dropsie Avenue during the Great Depression years, and (3) Dropsie Avenue (1995), where the story follows the neighborhood from the 1800s (farming community) to high-end suburb, its decline to a tenement community, the total breakdown and final rebuilding in the 1990s.

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I read this book in a mad hurry to reach the end of each story, so I don't have a well-formed impression other than they fact that it's very sketchy and episodic, especially the first two books. The setting is at times even sordid (what would you expect of the Bronx during the Depression) but the most interestin thing about the themes is that there is a basic tenderness and compassion in the treatment of the characters that seems odd considering their flaws and miseries.

It does have a feature that I love in a comic: it could not be told in any other form. The pace is too hectic for a "normal" book and too clever for a movie.