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The grandfather of alternative Manga --Time. Tetsu is a witless thug who lives off of his girlfriend. He has no profession, no goal. . .One day he will leave, never to return. Mika is a prostitute tormented by loneliness. When at last she finds a man who wants to stay with her, she still feels empty. Yamaguchi and other businessmen have a bet: the one who can guess the number of traffic fatalities the following week gets the money. But what's the point of money when each accident is a send-off, when each hello is followed by a good-bye. That's the way Tatsumi paints human lives for us in this masterful anthology of short stories: without sentimentality, without moralizing, with both realism and a sensitivity.
About the Author
¡°The grandfather of alternative manga¡± ¨CTime Magazine Espanol: Yoshihiro Tatsumi inventa el termino gekiga para referirse a una nueva manera de hacer manga mas adulta y funda junto a otros seis artistas el Estudio Gekiga. El origin del vocablo parte de geki [drama] y ga [ilustrado]. El genero se orienta a presentarnos las facetas mas escabrosas de la condicion humano a traves de las tragedias individuales que viven sus protagonistas. Tatsumi no solo rompe con las contenidos, sino tambien con las formas. Su narrativa se centra en primeros y medios planos para mostrarnos los estados psicologicos de los personajes a traves de sus miradas. Buena parte de los cliches que tradicionalmente se le asocian al manga (comicidad, deformacion de las caras) son dejados de lado para presentarnos un comic mas intimista, mas reflexivo, mas maduro.
English: In 1956, Yoshiriro Tatsumi pioneered an avant garde style of Japanese Manga known as ¡°Gekiga¡± („¡»­), which is Japanese for ¡°dramatic pictures.¡± Tatsumi coined this term to distinguish the style of serious Japanese cartoonists from more commercialized Manga aimed at children. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, those who had read Manga as children wanted works aimed at mature audiences. This generation of readers became known as the ¡°Manga generation¡±. They read Manga as a form of rebellion (similar to the role ¡°Rock & Roll¡± played for hippies in the U.S.)
These readers were drawn to Gekiga¡¯s more realistic style, sophisticated storytelling, and experimental, sometimes controversial, content.
Goodbye (Manga en espanol),Yoshihiro Tatsumi,Public Square Books,1594971250,Fiction,Fiction - Fantasy,Graphic Novels - General,Graphic Novels - Manga,Short Stories (single author),Spanish: Adult Fiction
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