Persepolis (comic)
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Persepolis |
| Original title | Persepolis |
| country | France |
| author | Marjane Satrapi |
| Illustrator | Marjane Satrapi |
| publishing company | L'Association |
| First publication | 2000 - 2003 |
| expenditure | 4th |
Persepolis is a French graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi , an author and illustrator of comic novels and children's books, who was born in Iran in 1969 and now lives in Paris . In the four-part work, which was published in two volumes in Germany, she describes her childhood in Iran, her later time abroad and the return to her home country. In 2004 it was named Comic of the Year at the Frankfurt Book Fair and received the Max and Moritz Prize in the category “Best German-language comic book import” at the Erlangen Comic Salon . World's Persepolis translated into 25 languages and sold over a million copies. The work is named after the old Persian residence city of Persepolis .
Content and style
In Persepolis , Satrapi is inspired by Art Spiegelman's mouse . Her autofiction tells the story of Marjane, also known as Marji, who saw the Islamic Revolution in Iran as a child . The main character has to endure the pro-Islamic indoctrination in school , learns of the closure of the universities under the new government, offends with her desire for jeans and Western music as well as her aversion to the headscarf ; she hears about the torture under the Shah's regime , experiences arrests and humiliations in the family by Islamists and has to say goodbye to her uncle, who is sitting in the execution cell as a spy for the Soviet Union . A cousin writes home about the horrors of the Iraqi-Iranian war . The bourgeois, intellectual parents finally send her abroad at the age of 14.
Volume two tells of her exile in Vienna , her return to Iran and her recent emigration in the 1990s when she settled in Paris.
Satrapi's drawing style in Persepolis is also based on Spiegelman. He is limited to black and white pictures with simple, clear lines.
Reviews
Persepolis was favorably received by the feature pages in German-speaking countries . The author's own style was emphasized, which creates a strong contrast between "childishly naive images" and "Marji's story with all its horrific and absurd episodes". The rebellion against stereotypes about life and the people in Iran and the work as a whole was also recognized as one of the most important contemporary comic publications. Occasionally, a "stronger - so to speak 'superordinate' - historical classification of what is shown" was missed and this was rated as a minor weak point of the work.
The international response was similarly positive; the insightful look on a personal level into a land of the " axis of evil " was praised as well as the exciting story.
filming
An animated version of Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud and starring Chiara Mastroianni , Catherine Deneuve , Danielle Darrieux and Simon Abkarian as voice actors was screened at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and won the Jury Prize. The Farabi Cinema Foundation , an organization closely related to the Iranian government, protested against the selection of the film for the Cannes competition because it "gave a false picture of the outcome and the achievements of the Islamic revolution". Still, the film was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. The film won further nominations in the Best Film category for the European Film Prize and the most important French film prize, the César .
Awards
- 2004: Max and Moritz Prize for the “Best German-language comic book import”, Erlangen Comic Salon .
- 2004: Comic of the year at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
- 2002: Prix du scénario (price for the best scenario) of the Festival d'Angoulême for the second volume of Persepolis .
- 2001: Coup de Coeur (today Révélation , award for the best debut) of the Festival d'Angoulême for the first volume of Persepolis .
literature
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. Vol. 1: A childhood in Iran . Edition Moderne, 2004. ISBN 3-907055-74-8 . (Hardcover, German first edition)
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. Vol. 2: Youth . Edition Moderne, 2004. ISBN 3-907055-82-9 (hardcover, German first edition)
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. Vol. 1: A childhood in Iran . Ueberreuter , 2005. ISBN 3-8000-5128-1
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. Vol. 2: Youth . Ueberreuter, 2006. ISBN 3-8000-5192-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Petra Tabeling: “The terrible girl from Tehran” , review on NZZ Online , March 26, 2007.
- ^ A b Matthias Nass: "Rebellin under the headscarf" , review in the ZEIT , April 29, 2004, No. 19.
- ↑ a b Inge Kämmerer: "The own story in comics: Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis I and II" ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), review on hr-online.de , July 19, 2005.
- ↑ Michael Williams, "Communism and Kim Wilde in 70s Iran," BBC Review , May 23, 2003 - English.
- ↑ Andrew D. Arnold: "An Iranian Girlhood" ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Review for TIME , May 16, 2003 - English.
- ↑ Cannes Film Festival website on Award - English; Retrieved September 6, 2013
- ↑ Ali Jaafar: "Satrapi blasts Iran's 'Persepolis' protest" ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on variety .com , May 23, 2007 - English.
Web links
- "Comic of the year 2004. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis " , review on comic.de.