Boris the Potato Child by Anne Simon
In her latest graphic novel, French artist and illustrator Anne Simon returns to her visually and allegorically rich fantasyland.Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the country Marylene. Since Marylene's fall, residents have lived in peace thanks to a self-governing system they have adopted. But when Boris meets Sabine, a warrior French fry thirsty for revenge, nothing will ever be the same ...The third book in Anne Simon's "Tales of Marylene '' graphic novel series (after The Song of Aglaia and Empress Cixtisis), Boris the Potato Child delivers a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses and abuses. Mixing literature and pop culture (such as mashing Simone de Beauvoir with the Beatles), Simon has created in Marylene a world as abundant in visual imagination as Oz or Narnia, but crafted with a Swiftian pen that's mightier than any man's sword.
From 1992 through 2011, Anne Simon taught Medieval and Early Modern German Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol. She is currently a Lecturer in German at the University of London's Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. Nuremberg from the Middle Ages to the Present; Travel Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present; hagiography; and the link between text and image are among her key academic topics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781683965626 |
| ISBN 10 | 1683965620 |
| Title | Boris the Potato Child |
| Author | Anne Simon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Year published | 2022-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 164 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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