another comic book

[François Monti]

RE: another comic bookFrom what I know, it's just a sort of metaphor. The protagonist sees "images" of his life, little bits here and there. I wouldn't take "graphic" too literaly.

François
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  From: Bekah 
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   "and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel."   (context below)


  Does this mean that parts of the book  are in a graphic novel format,  like little square comic type pictures?


  Can Eco draw? What is this meaning?


  Bekah





  At 10:38 AM -0500 1/4/05, Richard Romeo wrote:
    Life as seen a graphic novel seems pretty comic to me

    Richard
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    From: François Monti [mailto:francois at neovoid.org]
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    Errr, it doesn't really strike me as being a novel about comics....

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      From: Richard Romeo
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      Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:55 PM
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      God, if eco has written a novel about comicsS.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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