another comic book

[Richard Romeo]

God, if eco has written a novel about comics....when will it end

 

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a
loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read,
every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't
recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his
parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he
withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and
Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old
newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And
so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic
education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His
memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of
a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one
simple, innocent image: that of his first love.

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151011400/qid=1104789565/
sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4340572-8526558?v=glance&s=books

 

Richard 

 

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