Martin Rowson
Auteur de The Waste Land
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Œuvres de Martin Rowson
Imperial Exits: Being an Account of the Varied and Violent Deaths of the Roman Emperors (1995) 35 exemplaires
Kings and Queens. Part 2: The Tudors to the Windsors — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire
Kings and Queens. Part 1: the Anglo-Saxons to the Wars of the Roses — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme (1759) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 7,663 exemplaires
The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction (2000) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 100 exemplaires
Purple Homicide: Fear and Loathing on Knutsford Heath (1997) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 51 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Rowson, Martin George Edmund
- Date de naissance
- 1959-02-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, London
Cambridge University (Pembroke College|English literature) - Professions
- visual journalist
editorial cartoonist
writer - Organisations
- British Cartoonists' Association (chair)
People's Trust for Endangered Species (trustee|2013)
National Secular Society (honorary associate)
Humanists UK (distinguished supporter|board member)
Guardian (political cartoonist)
Daily Mirror (political cartoonist) - Prix et distinctions
- Cartoon Art Trust (political cartoonist of the year|2000|2004|caricaturist award|2011)
Political Cartoon Society (cartoon of the year|2003|2007|cartoonist of year|2010)
Premio Satiri de Forte di Marmi International Satire Award (2006)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 527
- Popularité
- #47,213
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 41
- Langues
- 5
There's a problem with authors like Laurence Sterne or Rabelais, for example. A lot of people haven't read them, but claim they have; these people are bothersome. Some people have read them; these people are almost uniformly exhausting in their smugness about the fact, not to mention zealots about deconstructing a medium which the rest of us enjoy just fine as it is, thankyou very much. And the rest of the world? Well, they haven't read them, which makes them barely even conceivable as humans.
Perhaps you can see the problem. If you haven't read Tristram Shandy (if "read" is the correct word for what one does in the presence of such an effervescent, destabilising text), you won't understand this. Rowson is not so much adapting Tristram for the graphic novel medium as he is deconstructing both Sterne's text and the very nature of text. Which is exactly what we should ask for from a graphic novel version of an 18th century novel that simply doesn't fit into literary history without accounting for the invention of time travel.
I'm not sure I like Rowson. There is something rather mean-spirited in his writing, don't you think? I'm unsettled by some of the morals which he draws from Sterne, or perhaps from our love of Sterne (yes, maybe his sentiment reflects literary humans more generally). And most definitely this work is caviar for the general. It's a book-lover's in-joke, primarily.
Still, while my experience was not worth four-stars, such a rating is justified by sheer brilliance, the delicacy, and the piquant grace notes to this work. Sterne's original narrative is augmented by ever-increasing bubbles of text, a sense of humour that swings rapidly from 'wry'to 'menacing', a deliberate recklessness instead of slavishness in the adaptation, and a cast of characters far exceeding the original (including some poor historians and writers just trying to figure out the text or craft a biography of Sterne himself!). If you've got Tristram under your belt, if you and Dr Slop have seen the chimes at midnight, and if you felt like Sterne was playing it far too safe... this may just be for you.
Madness of the highest order.… (plus d'informations)