REVIEW å TEXASBEERGUIDE.COM Ï Guy Delisle
Since the end of the Korean War, North Korea has become the most isolated, mysterious and fortified country on Earth. Unlike many other remote locations around the world North Korea is not a place many people would want to spend any time. However, thanks to globalization, and 1 more , For the past two nights I have had dreams about North Korea. I don't recall ever having had a recurring dream. I never dreamt about the North during the early part of this year when I read one book after another about the DPRK. I wonder what tonight's dream will be about, and 1 more , Having recently visited North Korea for 4 of the wackiest, most surreal and intensely thought provoking days of my life, I can recommend this book as the next best thing to visiting that crazy country. The country is such a closed clam that the visual memories are and 1 more , After finishing Bradley Martin's excellent Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty , I was interested in finding out about the DPRK. This book is pretty current, so than Martin's book (excluding his and 1 more , I gave this to a teen aged daughter for Christmas an odd gift I suppose, and ended up reading it myself straight through, in front of the tree. Perhaps it's not a kid thing. In North Korea's social model we see the ultimate manifestation of the human urge to power and and 1 more ,
The perennial graphic novel about a “hermit country,” with a new cover and an introduction by Gore VerbinskiGuy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress like country when he was working in animation for a French company.While living in the nation’s capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered, bringing a sardonic and skeptical perspective on a place rife with propaganda. As a guide to the country, Delisle is a non believer with a keen eye for the humor and tragedy of dictatorial whims, expressed in looming architecture and tiny, omnipresent photos of the president. The absurd vagaries of everyday life become fodder for a frustrated animator’s musings as boredom and censorship sink in. Delisle himself is the ideal foil for North Korean spin, the grumpy outsider who brought a copy of George Orwell’s 1984 with him into the totalitarian nation.Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at a dangerous and enigmatic country. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
É incrível e assustador mas esse relato de viagem mostra como distopias clássicas como 1984 e Fahrenheit 541 podem se tornar realidade. and 1 more , Personally, I follow a lot of North Korean goings ons, especially since Kim Jong Il is such a character. I'm Korean American so I've always been fascinated by this topic and I'm also a graphic artist so I've done my own share of parody artwork and interactive/digital and 1 more , Illuminating look into life in North Korea for a Western foreigner working in Pyongyang for two months in 2003. It’s oppressive and depressing and a bit overwhelming. The author fills his illustrated memoir with absurdist humor that reflects the absurdity of life and 1 more , It’s interesting to learn that the subway is buried 90 meters underground and can be used as an atomic shelter among other things. I’d recommend this comic book to anyone desirous to get familiar with North Korea, here portrayed from inside with some distant criticism. and 1 more , Novel idea and was an interesting concept. It just seemed to drag on. Wish there was commentary, or a little to bring you in. I dont know if I came in expecting something like Maus, which perhaps was unfair to the book, but I finished it disappointed. and 1 more ,