Marbles
Autor Ellen Forneyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2012
Imaginați-vă o tânără artistă aflată în pragul vârstei de 30 de ani, oscilând între euforia electrizantă a maniei și abisul paralizant al depresiei, în timp ce se agață de caietul de schițe ca de o ancoră. Aceasta este imaginea de deschidere a volumului Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me, o confesiune grafică de o onestitate brutală semnată de Ellen Forney. Subliniem modul în care autoarea reușește să transforme lupta sa interioară cu tulburarea bipolară într-o analiză fascinantă a legăturii dintre geniul creativ și patologie. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman grafic rezidă în echilibrul dintre autoironie și rigoarea documentării clinice.
La intersecția dintre Rock Steady și Touched With Fire, această carte combină vulnerabilitatea jurnalului personal cu o cercetare profundă asupra mitului „artistului torturat”. Forney nu se limitează la propria experiență, ci caută răspunsuri în biografiile unor titani precum Michelangelo sau Georgia O’Keeffe, încercând să înțeleagă dacă tratamentul medicamentos îi va anihila scânteia creativă. Remarcăm stilul vizual dinamic, în care contrastul puternic dintre alb și negru servește drept metaforă vizuală pentru extremele afective prin care trece protagonista.
În contextul operei sale, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me reprezintă o evoluție firească de la stilul jucăuș din The Adventures of You! către o zonă mult mai matură și introspectivă. Dacă în colaborarea sa celebră pentru The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ilustrațiile sale punctau cu umor drama unui adolescent, aici desenul devine instrumentul principal de supraviețuire și înțelegere a propriei minți. Rezultatul este un roman grafic dens, dar accesibil, care refuză clișeele despre boala psihică.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1592407323
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: B&W illustrations t/o
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte tuturor celor interesați de psihologie, artă sau memorii grafice. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă autentică asupra tulburării bipolare, dincolo de definițiile clinice. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum creativitatea poate supraviețui diagnosticului, oferind în același timp un sentiment de solidaritate celor care se confruntă cu provocări similare. Umorul fin al lui Ellen Forney face ca subiectul greu să devină surprinzător de digerabil.
Despre autor
Ellen Forney este o artistă grafică și ilustratoare stabilită în Seattle, a cărei carieră a fost marcată de un succes internațional răsunător odată cu ilustrarea volumului The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, distins cu National Book Award. Recunoscută pentru stilul său expresiv și capacitatea de a aborda teme sociale și personale complexe, Forney a devenit o voce importantă în dialogul despre sănătatea mintală. Experiența sa personală cu tulburarea bipolară a devenit nucleul creativ al lucrărilor sale recente, transformând vulnerabilitatea în artă educativă și empatică.
Descriere scurtă
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.
Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind.
Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.
Recenzii
Named one of the best books of the year by East Bay Express
Named Best Graphic Novel of Fall 2012 by Time
"Brutally honest and deeply moving, the book is by turns dark, mordant, and hilarious. One of this year's best American memoirs." —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Forney’s exhilarating and enlightening autobiographical portrait of her bipolar disorder (otherwise known as manic depression), takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster…. Her clear and thoughtful art provides a powerful, effective and brilliant illumination of this unforgettable adventure.”
—Miami Herald
"Ellen Forney's memoir of her bipolar diagnosis and long pharmacopic trek toward balance is painfully honest and joyously exuberant. Her drawings evoke the neuron-crackling high of mania and the schematic bleakness of depression with deft immediacy. Forney is at the height of her powers as she explores the tenuous line between mood disorders and creativity itself."
—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Dense with intellectual and emotional power, Forney's book is a treasure—as a memoir, as an artwork, and as a beautifully conceived and executed commentary on both mental experience and the creative life. With wit, humor, a wicked sense of the absurd, and eloquent insight into the beauty that shines through the mercurial life of the mind, this graphic memoir explores its subject with a particular precision and power. Forney should be read.”
—Marya Hornbacher, author of Madness: A Bipolar Life
"Ellen's work has always been hilarious and sharp, but Marbles has an emotional resonance that shows new depth as an artist and a writer. This is an extremely personal, brave, and rewarding book."
—Dan Savage, editor of It Gets Better and author of The Kid
"I have always admired Ellen Forney's humor and honesty, but Marbles is a major leap forward. It's a hilarious memoir about mental illness, yes, but it's also an incisive study of what it means to be human and how we ache to become better humans. Amazing stuff."
—Sherman Alexie, bestselling author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Witty and insightful…The long journey of medication and therapy is kept from gloom by Forney’s lively, likable cartooning … Readers struggling with their own mania or depression will find Forney good company, and others searching for insight into the minds of troubled artists will find Forney an engaging storyteller.”
—Starred Publishers Weekly
“Not only does her conversational intimacy draw readers in, but her drawings perfectly capture the exhilarating frenzy of mania and the dark void of depression….Forney’s story should resonate with those grappling with similar issues, while her artistry should appeal to a wide readership.”
—Starred Kirkus Reviews
"Marbles isn't just a great story; it's proof that artists don't have to be tortured to be brilliant."
—Entertainment Weekly, Grade "A" Review
“Is it weird to call a memoir about bipolar disorder entertaining? Well, this one is, thanks to the ease with which Forney translates her vivacious, fearless personality to the page…. Forney has a virtuosic understanding of what words and images can do in congress, playing them off one another in ways that allow her pages to be more than the sum of their parts.”
—Myla Goldberg, NPR.org
“Marbles is more than a survivor’s story…It is a book about Forney’s struggle to come to terms with herself, which is similar to the struggle everyone must undergo.”
—Los Angeles Times
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Descriere
Washington Post's Top 10 Graphic Novels 2012
'An unflinching and frequently unforgiving narrative of what it means to have bipolar disorder' - John Crace, Guardian
'Marbles isn't just a great story; it's proof that artists don't have to be tortured to be brilliant.' - Entertainment Weekly
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she began a long struggle over many years to find mental stability while retaining her creativity.
Searching to make sense of the popular idea of the 'crazy artist', she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to "cure" an otherwise brilliant mind.
Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney's memoir provides a humorous but authentic glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist's work, as she shares her own story through black-and-white graphic images and prose.
Written & illustrated by Ellen Forney - best known for her work on National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.