And who else would write: ‘The fact that the mother is the original love-object for both males and females presents Freud with a sticky wicket’? I think that means swimming in the buff- but what do I know? I've read it several times, always moved and impressed by its narrative and visual power, and always finding new angles of interest with each reread. If you liked this book, tell me why. I think that means swimming in the buff- but what do I know? I am having a hard time believing how much I disliked this book. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon.
Perhaps my own psychoanalysis would be interesting to me (though I doubt it)- someone else's surely is not. There was a self-absorption in this work that was disturbing at times, and lent a sense of unease to the experience of reading it. I felt like I was reading this slowly - although clearly not, as I finished in two-three days or so. Feb 27, 2020 - Explore melancosmic's board "alison bechdel" on Pinterest.
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. But because its an attempt to emulate its brill predecessor, the glorious "Fun Home", & has less anchors or poetic ideas that pop up with artful disposition throughout this, a very unmerry meta effort-- it is a cranial deconstruction of prior psychoanalyses & (I suppose) less hearty than the ode to Bechdel's father-- it succeeds less than her true masterpiece. I'm sure this book was cathartic for her to write, but it was not the least bit enjoyable to read.I love the title of this book. great literature produces great responses!If you don't have a hard-on for psychoanalysis, this meta-book is not for you. Le Guin's words could stand as an epigraph to this diptych: Glad I stopped a few pages in and read Fun Home first - that not only provided context, but made this sequel a lot more palatable. I'd hesitantly started reading it, wary that it wouldn't live up to my grand expectations (my favourite authors have been letting me down lately).
-Mitch Albom It's also hard to criticize this book since it was so intensely personal -- but I actually think this was one of its main problems.
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Le Guin's words could stand as an epigraph to this diptych: A self-consciously forced "meta-book" follow-up to A self-consciously forced "meta-book" follow-up to I wept a little as I read the first third of this book. It is a formal tour de force.To me, this book resembles the kind of modernism that forms, in the persona of Virginia Woolf, one of its central themes.
First, because it evokes (thematically) a I love the title of this book. What makes this book not just funny but also in the end moving, is that Bechdel is able, at last, to find good in her mother and in their restrained accord.
Thrillingly discursive, it’s framed by the artist’s struggle to create Fun Home and broker her mother’s acceptance of its public unearthing of family secrets. It's a paradox. See more ideas about Alison bechdel, Graphic novel, Are you my mother. We’d love your help. It is a formal tour de force.Once more Alison Bechdel knocks a stellar work out the park (after half a decade of torturous self-analysis) and repositions the suffering neurotic artist at the forefront of serious art. Both of her parents contributed to her career as a cartoonist. Fragments of themes weave in and out of each other, breaking off, reappearing in new contexts; the words and images often come apart, reproducing the sense of polyphony in the written medium.
Bechdel was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Ultimately, though, she comes back to Mother and their fragile, poignant truce. It was an excellent book that I would recommend to all comics fans but also readers in general, so I was looking forward to this follow-up, this time the focus supposedly being on her mother. The two stars are for the drawings, not the text. I could not have been more disappointed.