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<title><![CDATA[Programa 49- Guy Delisle, Lélis, Mundo Mendelévio e Velhas Virgens]]></title>
<link>http://programabancadequadrinhos.com/2009/11/24/programa-49-guy-delisle-lelis-mundo-mendelevio-e-velhas-virgens/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>donrodrigone</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hola! Desculpem pelo atraso na postagem, mas compensamos a demora com um programa repleto de matéria]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hola! Desculpem pelo atraso na postagem, mas compensamos a demora com um programa repleto de matérias bacanas. No primeiro bloco da edição 49 da Banca, você confere mais entrevistas bem legais com grandes nomes que passaram pela sexta edição do FIQ (Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos de Belo Horizonte). O grande destaque é o papo com o canadense, radicado na França, <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com">Guy Delisle</a>. O cara é um dos grandes contadores de histórias da atualidade. No Brasil ele tem três álbuns publicados pela<a href="http://www.zarabatana.com.br" target="_blank"> Zarabatana </a>(Crônicas Birmanesas, Pyongyang e Shenzhen), nos quais narra com bom humor e inteligência suas impressões dos períodos em que viveu na Birmânia, na Coréia do Norte e na China, três países com forte censura e pouco conhecimento do mundo ocidental. Além de Delisle, a Banca ainda entrevista o genial aquarelista <a href="http://www.graffiti76.com/hqlelis.html">Lélis,</a> o quadrinhista <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mendelevio" target="_blank">João Marcos</a> (da divertida hq <a href="http://www.mendelevio.com.br">Mundo Mendelévio e o Planeta Telúria</a>) e <a href="http://www.twitter.com/blogpauloramos" target="_blank">Paulo Ramos</a>, jornalista, autor de livros e pesquisador de quadrinhos.</p>
<p>No segundo bloco você acompanha as dicas e novidades da Banca, com a presença de <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mauriciomuniz" target="_blank">Mauricio Muniz</a>, da <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Gal_Editora" target="_blank">Gal Editora</a>, que está lançando no Brasil a premiadíssima hq &#8220;Fracasso de Público&#8221;. Ele ainda fala dos próximos lançamentos da editora e comenta com o Carlão e Rodrigo as dicas de quadrinhos da Banca. E finalizamos essa edição com uma entrevista impagável com o Cavalo, da banda <a href="http://www.twitter.com/velhasvirgens">Velhas Virgens</a>. Ele fala dessa insana hq que roteirizou com as aventuras de um das mais irreverentes bandas do Brasil.</p>
<p>HQTEMA: Ultimate &#8211; Wolverine versus Hulk  (Panini Comics)</p>
<p>Bloco 1</p>
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<p>Programa que vem ainda tem mais FIQ e outras coisas bacanas. O ano está acabando e as edições  de dezembro da Banca vão estar cheias de matérias imperdíveis. Ah, não esqueça de mandar e-mail para gente: bancadequadrinhos@gmail.com, deixar um comentário aqui no site e seguir a gente no <a href="http://www.twitter.com/bancaquadrinhos" target="_blank">twitter</a>.  Até a próxima. =)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[escaldado]]></title>
<link>http://amoraes.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/escaldado/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amoraes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[o calor insuportável de 5ª não me preparou pro toró de hoje. ainda quente demais. o ar condensando-s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>o calor insuportável de 5ª não me preparou pro toró de hoje.</p>
<p>ainda quente demais. o ar condensando-se em vapor, globos oculares cozinhando &#8216;no bafo&#8217;, visão falhando.</p>
<p>café e cigarros à tarde, que estávamos convalescendo (não é o plural majestático, pode ter certeza&#8230; nenhuma majestade deste lado). descobri que sou alérgico a amendoim. garganta obstruída, dificuldade de engolir.</p>
<p>na última semana li &#8216;crônicas birmanesas&#8217;, do Delisle, que foi o que me fez pegar a cópia do 1984 pra conferir os ensaios. cê sabe que o Eric trabalhou na Birmânia por um tempo, antes de encher o saco e sair pela europa e ficar na pior. rendeu um livro legal, &#8216;dias na birmânia&#8217;. coisas.</p>
<p>a sensação térmica hoje era parecida com a que alguns autores descrevem em países asiáticos aterrorizantes. a chuva morna durou uns 15 minutos e me lembrou das monções.</p>
<p>e de um conto do Bradbury que, se não me engano, a E.C. adaptou pros quadrinhos. um planeta em que chovia perpetuamente. as missões tripuladas contavam com uma base, a única garantia de que não ficariam expostos aos elementos. mas nesse tipo de história as coisas precisam dar errado pra se ter o que contar, certo?</p>
<p>então imagine!</p>
<p>na minha história o coletivo passou e quando cheguei em casa já tinha terminado a chuva. um dos meus olhos ainda parece cozido. meu oftalmologista diria que não é um diagnóstico animador.</p>
<p>depois do último fds em que, mais uma vez, o ombro, acompanhado de perto por um par de vértebras, parece ter saído do lugar, me animei a fazer alguns exercícios e tentar salvar o que resta de funcional na carcaça que estou usando.</p>
<p>a parte engraçada é que funciona.</p>
<p>a desagradável é que não tenho certeza do que fazer quando a temperatura bate nos 42º. não quero arriscar um piripaque irreversível.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Pyongyang]]></title>
<link>http://pechorinsjournal.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/pyongyang-guy-delisl/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Max Cairnduff</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Guy Delisle is a Québécois animator, comic writer and artist. He is most famous for his graphic nove]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Guy Delisle is a Québécois animator, comic writer and artist. He is most famous for his graphic novels Shenzhen and Pyongyang, which illustrate his experiences managing animation teams in China and North Korea. </p>
<p>Guy Delisle came to my attention through the Just William blog, with this post <a href="http://justwilliamsluck.blogspot.com/2009/07/round-corner-from-lady.html">here</a>, I made a mistake about the order of Shenzhen and Pyongyang (2000 and 2003 respectively), and so started with Pyongyang thinking it was the first. It wasn’t, but it was excellent, and given it’s taken from real life getting them out of order doesn’t much matter (there’s no plot in real life, after all).</p>
<p>Pyongyang was originally written in French, and is translated by Helge Dascher. It’s a very natural translation, enough so that I didn’t actually realise for quite some time that this was a translated work.</p>
<p>Anyway, what’s it like and what’s it about? Very simply, it’s about Delisle’s experiences living and working for a period of a few months in Pyongyang, capital city of North Korea. As such, it’s a very rare insight into what life is like in that astonishingly isolated country. As you might expect, it’s not really a cheery read.  North Korea comes across as being as terrible as you might imagine, a bizarre mix of poverty, empty spectacle and official deception.</p>
<p>Delisle has a very simple art style, uncluttered.  He uses a range of grey shadings, but with a lot of variation in panel sizes – creating an effect where there are close-ups and long-shots and so a sense of movement in what might otherwise be a fairly static text. There’s a sly humour running through it, Delisle clearly at times became deeply frustrated with the constraints and absurdities of North Korean life, though he’s aware too of quite how much trouble a joke on his part might cause to the locals (perhaps not always aware enough though, I’m still not wholly sure it was wise or safe to lend one of his translators a copy of George Orwell’s 1984). I’ve attached three images below, the second is where Delisle slips out for a walk without his then translator to do some shopping one day.</p>

<p>North Korea itself is utterly surreal, on arrival Delisle is given a bunch of flowers, and is expected to leave them at the base of a huge statue of Kim Il-Sung (the statue visited under a pretext, as Delisle’s must appear a natural gesture). He stays in a vast and empty hotel, 50 storeys high, with all foreigners on the 15th floor – the only one that’s lit. There are two restaurants in the hotel, Restaurant Number 1 and Restaurant Number 2 (number 3 being under renovation), every morning at 7am his maid wakes him to replenish the water in his mini-fridge regardless of any do not disturb sign he may hang on his door. There are ideas of how things are done, but distorted, lacking any sense of why they are done, reduced to empty form.</p>
<p>Pyongyang itself is curiously, disturbingly, sterile. No one loiters, no one chats, people go about their business and do not linger. At Delisle’s own work, a Korean technician sits alongside him pointing at the screen whenever he pauses a moment so as to let him know what to do next. She sings along to the radio in Korean, naturally she speaks no English, so she is not able to provide any actual help to him. Everything is controlled, all the radio stations are tuned to the same station and when he tampers with his to tune in to other frequencies he finds there are broadcasts he was unable to listen to but they all play exactly the same thing. At night the streets are unlit, his animation team practice every morning with wooden rifles, it is a phenomenally joyless country.</p>
<p>Delisle does try to get to know the local culture, he hears about the philosophy of the country’s two leaders, he visits national museums, at times he even manages to go out for walks on his own into the streets, but in a very real sense there is no living local culture. There is mass culture, state approved, state disseminated, with any sign of individuality or independent thought clearly very dangerous indeed – the re-education camps are always waiting. As Delisle says “at a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.”</p>
<p>The indifference to humanity portrayed in this comic is extraordinary, the “volunteer” workers, the desperate poverty, the openly stated calculations of what percentage of the population need survive to allow society to continue (30%). For centuries people have dreamed of utopias, we must be thankful that most of us never have to experience them.</p>
<p>There is a question as to how appropriate this material is for a comic. Like many things, I think the answer to that lies in the execution. Here, Delisle shows us a city most of us will never visit, I learnt more from this comic than I have from anything else I’ve read or watched on the place, there’s an immediacy to this form that can make it a powerful tool for reportage of a sort that more conventional accounts can struggle with. It’s easily read, it’s often very funny, and it’s absolutely horrible because what it portrays is horrible. Delisle is not a journalist (unlike, say, Joe Sacco is in his comics about Gorazde and Palestine), but for all that he makes serious points and it doesn&#8217;t diminish their impact that he makes them in a comic.</p>
<p>Overall, I think this is a skilful portrait of a place that most of us know very little about, it’s well drawn and written and expertly translated. Having read it, I know more than I did, and I enjoyed learning it. That’s no small achievement, and I’m looking forward to reading his Shenzhen next.</p>
<p>As a final note, of all the things in this comic which I found ugly or depressing, perhaps the worst &#8211; among all the monumentalist architecture, cowed population, poverty and fear &#8211; comes when Delisle asks his translator why he has seen no handicapped people.  He is told that there are none. The perfect society has no place for the infirm.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780224079907/Pyongyang">Pyongyang</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Gerais de Minas]]></title>
<link>http://oqueijoeosvermes.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/gerais-de-minas/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ronoc</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Cada vez que vou a BH, percebo uma nova faceta da capital mineira que minhas visitas anteriores simp]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Cada vez que vou a BH, percebo uma nova faceta da capital mineira que minhas visitas anteriores simplesmente não me tinham mostrado. E cada vez me apaixono mais <em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">com</span> </em>a cidade. Neste <em>post</em>, resolvi deixar registradas algumas brevíssimas impressões e observações desta última jornada belorizontina.</p>
<p>Finalmente conheci a <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.ufmg.br" target="_blank">UFMG</a>, ainda que numa visita relâmpago. Em meio ao ambiente charmosamente bucólico do campus, nada surpreendente notar que ao desmazelo das instalações da <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/" target="_blank">FAFICH</a>, uma decadência cuidadosamente mantida nos limites da subsistência, corresponda a exuberância quase alienígena dos novíssimos prédios da <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.face.ufmg.br/" target="_blank">Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas</a> &#8212; tal qual acontece na <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.usp.br" target="_blank">USP</a> e em tantas estaduais e federais país afora, a César o que é de César. Não quis me impor o desgosto de conferir se por lá também existem as &#8220;salas patrocinadas&#8221; como no torpe modelo da congênere paulistana <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.fea.usp.br/" target="_blank">FEA</a>, mas poderia apostar a <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moedinha_N%C3%BAmero_1" target="_blank">moedinha número 1</a> que tem dedo da iniciativa privada por lá.</p>
<p>E foi no prédio da FAFICH (mais precisamente numa pequena  livraria chamada <em>Quixote</em>) que, depois de quase 3 anos de procura, consegui finalmente um exemplar novinho em folha do primeiro volume dos <em>Ensaios Reunidos</em>, do <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Maria_Carpeaux" target="_blank">Otto Maria Carpeaux</a>, que está esgotado há algum tempo e que, até em sebos, estava sendo difícil de achar. (Aliás, quem tem notícias de a quantas anda o projeto de resgate dos escritos de Carpeaux? A última coisa que ouvi, por parte da <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.topbooks.com.br" target="_blank">Topbooks</a>, é que não havia qualquer previsão para um novo lançamento&#8230;).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">- Ω -</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 415px"><img class=" " title="Duplicação da Avenida Antônio Carlos (Belo Horizonte, MG)" src="http://www.transportes.mg.gov.br/images/stories/noticias/rua_arariba.jpg" alt="" width="405" height="270" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Duplicação da Antônio Carlos: soluções urbanas e photoshop, uma parceria que dá certo.</p></div>
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<p>BH segue investindo pesado em algumas adequações urbanas, como a <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.transportes.mg.gov.br/index.php/component/content/article/796-duplicacao-da-antonio-carlos-segunda-etapa.html" target="_blank">duplicação da avenida Antônio Carlos</a>, mas fico sabendo que nesta metrópole de quase 2 milhões e meio de habitantes, a expansão da malha metroviária (que, hoje, conta com apenas uma linha de pouco mais de 28km de extensão) tem sido bastante tímida &#8212; e isso mesmo com a &#8220;pressão&#8221; trazida pela Copa de 2014. De novo, a prioridade é o automóvel. Lógico, temos grandes montadoras instaladas no estado, como a Fiat. Abrir mais espaços para os carros é aumentar a capacidade de absorção do mercado (ao menos em termos físicos), é estimular a produção industrial; e estimular a produção é gerar emprego, gerar desenvolvimento&#8230; Até quando vamos insistir nessa cadeia equivocada de raciocínio? Perguntar não ofende (ou não deveria): investir em transporte público sobre trilhos não gera empregos nem desenvolvimento?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">- Ω -</p>
<div id="attachment_1151" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1151 " title="Torre AltaVila, por Henriqueta Marques" src="http://oqueijoeosvermes.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/torre_altavila_queta.jpg" alt="Torre AltaVila, por Henriqueta Marques" width="300" height="400" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Fala-se muito em Varginha, mas parece que os ETs têm posto avançado é em Nova Lima.</p></div>
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<p>Quando você for a BH, algo que recomendo enfaticamente é uma visita à torre <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.altavila.com.br/" target="_blank">AltaVila</a><span class="wp-caption-dd">. Localizada no município de <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.novalima.mg.gov.br/" target="_blank">Nova Lima</a> (colado à capital),</span> a torre é parte de um centro comercial que tem entre suas atrações o <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.hardrockcafebrasil.com.br" target="_blank">Hard Rock Café</a> e um restaurante japonês instalado no ponto mais alto &#8212; a torre em si tem 101 metros de altura, mas como está fincada no topo de um morro, você acaba ficando 432 metros acima do centro de BH. Numa estrutura que propositalmente lembra um disco voador, é possível avistar boa parte de Belo Horizonte. Não sei como é durante o dia, mas à noite posso garantir que a vista é belíssima!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">- Ω -</p>
<p>Outro lugar que adorei ter conhecido foi o <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.palaciodasartes.com.br" target="_blank">Palácio das Artes</a>, que fica no <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://portalpbh.pbh.gov.br/pbh/ecp/comunidade.do?evento=portlet&#38;pIdPlc=ecpTaxonomiaMenuPortal&#38;app=salaturista&#38;tax=14915&#38;lang=pt_BR&#38;pg=5342&#38;taxp=0&#38;" target="_blank">Parque Municipal Américo Renné Giannetti</a>. De 6 a 12 de outubro o Palácio abrigou a 6ª edição do <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.fiqbh.com.br/" target="_blank">FIQ!</a> (Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos). O festival prestou homenagem ao artista gaúcho <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Canini" target="_blank">Renato Canini</a>, e trouxe nomes como Liniers (o segundo álbum <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/cultura/busca/busca.asp?tipoBusca=1&#38;sid=96214714411928249092261746&#38;k5=3292DC60&#38;uid=&#38;par=cnews&#38;bmodo=&#38;palavratitulo=macanudo&#38;modobuscatitulo=pc&#38;palavraautor=&#38;modobuscaautor=pc&#38;palavraeditora=zarabatana&#38;palavracolecao=&#38;palavraISBN=&#38;n1n2n3=&#38;cidioma=&#38;precomax=&#38;ordem=disponibilidade" target="_blank"><em>Macanudo</em></a> acaba de ser lançado no Brasil pela espertíssima editora campineira <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.zarabatana.com.br/" target="_blank">Zarabatana</a>, de Cláudio Roberto Martini), <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/" target="_blank">Craig Thompson</a> (<a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/cultura/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=2774775&#38;sid=96214714411928249092261746&#38;k5=15F93186&#38;uid=" target="_blank"><em>Retalhos</em></a>) e <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.guydelisle.com/" target="_blank">Guy Delisle</a> (de <em><a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/cultura/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=2744370&#38;sid=96214714411928249092261746&#38;k5=1AE6346A&#38;uid=" target="_blank">Crônicas Birmanesas</a>,</em> <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/cultura/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=2224138&#38;sid=96214714411928249092261746&#38;k5=EACF61B&#38;uid=" target="_blank"><em>Pyongyang</em></a> e <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/cultura/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=13008710&#38;sid=96214714411928249092261746&#38;k5=EACF61B&#38;uid=" target="_blank"><em>Shenzhen</em></a>, todos da Zarabatana) para conversar com o público. Abaixo, uma pequena amostra do FIQ! nas fotos da <a class="wp-caption-dd" href="http://henriqueta.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Queta</a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a title="FIQ! 2009 por Ro.n.o.c, no Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473662@N07/4022144394/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4022144394_61049db262_o.jpg" alt="FIQ! 2009" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FIQ! 2009 - Belo Horizonte, MG</p></div>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a title="canini_picapau por Ro.n.o.c, no Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473662@N07/4021382073/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/4021382073_1e38af6809_o.jpg" alt="canini_picapau" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pica-Pau vs. Pinóquio, por Canini</p></div>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a title="Canini, no FIQ! 2009 (pastorinha e ovelha) por Ro.n.o.c, no Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473662@N07/4022149730/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/4022149730_8618d265f0_o.jpg" alt="Canini, no FIQ! 2009 (pastorinha e ovelha)" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A pastorinha, por Canini</p></div>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a title="Canini no FIQ! 2009 (sertão) por Ro.n.o.c, no Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473662@N07/4021384259/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/4021384259_390826aa77_o.jpg" alt="Canini no FIQ! 2009 (sertão)" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FIQ! 2009: homenagem ao artista gaúcho Roberto Canini</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Corea del Norte]]></title>
<link>http://pierderompepaga.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/corea-del-norte/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Emi Yahni</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El 29 de enero de 2002, George W. Bush, ese personaje del cual todos nos acordamos de su familia cad]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[North Korea's Next Supreme Leader... His Son.]]></title>
<link>http://theprovisionalresident.com/2009/10/06/north-koreas-next-supreme-leader/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Szopa</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s big news coming out of South Korean intelligence circles is North Korea&#8217;s Suprem]]></description>
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<p>Today&#8217;s big news coming out of South Korean intelligence circles is North Korea&#8217;s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-II, decision to appoint his youngest son, Kim Jong-Un, to a post in the ruling communist party. Yes, you guess it, Mr. Kim Jong-Un is expected to take over some time between 2010 and 2012 from his ailing father&#8230; </p>
<p>If only the Supreme Leader would give me more notice, I&#8217;d plan a parade or something&#8230; Nothing too big or lavish&#8230; After all, we need to save ourselves for the official party in 2010 or 2012&#8230; </p>
<p>To celebrate today&#8217;s news, I offer some excerpts from Canadian graphic novelist Guy Delisle, &#8220;Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea&#8221;. His work experiences as an animator has brought him to the most dangerous and remote places in the world, Burma, Shenzhen, China and Pyongyang, North Korea. Its a fantastic read. Pick one up. I promise you won&#8217;t be disappointed&#8230; Check out Delisle&#8217;s website <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com">http://www.guydelisle.com/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ces BDs qui nous aident à comprendre (2) - Guy Delisle ]]></title>
<link>http://culturespub.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/ces-bds-qui-nous-aident-a-comprendre-2-guy-delisle/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lien Rag</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Le deuxième auteur à avoir marqué la France (enfin, le monde de la BD, c&#8217;est déjà bien) avec s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-953" title="gdl" src="http://culturespub.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/gdl.jpg" alt="gdl" height="180" />Le deuxième auteur à avoir marqué la France (enfin, le monde de la BD, c&#8217;est déjà bien) avec ses récits de voyages est le Québequois <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Delisle" target="_blank">Guy Delisle</a>. Comme Marjane Satrapi, il publie à l&#8217;Association. Ce n&#8217;est pas tant son premier album biogéographique, Shenzhen, mais le second, Pyongyang, qui a marqué les critiques et la communauté. C&#8217;est aujourd&#8217;hui devenu une référence de la BD&#8230; &#8230;comme de la Corée du Nord !<br />
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<p><strong>Shenzhen</strong>, 2000</p>
<p>Dans le cadre de son travail dans l&#8217;animation, Guy Delisle va passer trois mois en Chine, plus précisément à <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen" target="_blank">Shenzhen</a>, l&#8217;énorme ville industriello-économique située à la &#8221;frontière&#8221; de Hong-Kong. Le livre raconte le choc culturel que l&#8217;auteur a vécu, la vie en Chine, et tout plein de petites anecdotes. Ceux qui ont déjà voyagé se rappelleront ce dépaysement, surtout ceux qui sont allés en Asie, pour les autres, ce ne sera peut-être qu&#8217;un récit de voyage, dessiné cette fois.</p>
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<p><strong>Pyongyang</strong>, 2003</p>
<p>Dans la logique de réduction des coûts, lorsqu&#8217;il faut encore économiser après une délocalisation en Chine, il faut se rendre en Corée du Nord ! Si, si ! Un des pays les plus fermés du monde est _<em>the place to be</em>_ dans le monde de l&#8217;animation. Les dessins animés lamentables des gamins d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui sont produits là-bas, même -et surtout- les dessins animés français. Dans ce cadre, Guy Delisle se rend à Pyongyang pour superviser un studio qui travaille sur Corto Maltese. Comme dans Shenzhen, il y décrit le choc culturel, ici autrement plus grand car nous n&#8217;avons que très peu de témoignages de la vie là-bas. A ce titre, cette BD est devenu une référence sur la Corée du Nord, et elle est souvent citée en exemple. Et au même titre parfois critiquée : je vous invite à lire le double dossier (<a href="http://amitiefrancecoree.over-blog.org/article-26586870.html" target="_blank">1/2</a> et <a href="http://amitiefrancecoree.over-blog.org/article-26586870.html" target="_blank">2/2</a>) de cette critique du témoignage de Delisle par des nordcoréens, qui permet de prendre du recul par rapport à l&#8217;œuvre. Le livre n&#8217;en reste pa moins extrêmement intéressant, et le crayonné des dessins est plus propre que dans Shenzhen, ce qui est plutôt agréable.</p>
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<p><strong>Chroniques birmanes</strong>, 2007</p>
<p>Enfin, en 2007, sort Chroniques birmanes. Cette fois, c&#8217;est pour suivre sa femme qui travaille à Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) que Delisle a passé un an en Birmanie (ou Myanmar, appellation officielle depuis le coup d&#8217;état). Si le pays est très touristique, et que les témoignages sont nombreux, cela reste une dictature où l&#8217;on est très surveillé. L&#8217;ambiance est toutefois bien moins pesante que dans Pyongyang. Le récit est très diversifié, on y retrouve le côté choc culturel, parfois en rapport avec son fils qu&#8217;il garde la journée ; en plus, des récits de ses excursions touristiques ou non, et un peu de topo sur le pays, et sur les gentils gens qui sont biens contents qu&#8217;il y ait une gentille dictature, comme Total (ils ne viennent pas chez eux par hasard ^^). Sinon, ce volume n&#8217;est pas publié comme les deux autres à l&#8217;Association, mais entre temps, comme je le disais dans mon dernier post, Trondheim a décroché un poste important chez Delcourt, et dirige une collection où il publie ses amis et les bloggueurs (en gros).</p>
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<p><strong>Jérusalem</strong>, 2010 ?</p>
<p>Et maintenant ? Guy Delisle vient de finir son séjour à Jerusalem Est, où il a suivi sa femme (toujours MSF), qui tentait d&#8217;aider les palestiniens, notamment pendant le <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plomb_durci" target="_blank">pogrom dans le ghetto de la bande de gaza</a> (décembre 2008).  Il en a parlé tout du long dans son <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/WordPress/" target="_blank">blog</a> (oh, un wordpress ^^). Il y évoque de nombreux sujets, dont certains qui me tiennent à cœur, comme les restrictions sur les libertés de déplacement (ou les libertés tout court), et la politique des frontières scandaleuse d&#8217;Israël (si vous allez à Jerusalem Est ou dans les territoires occupés, attendez vous aux pires interrogatoires, fouille aux corps, pour souvent être finallement refoulé. Ah et <a href="http://www.rue89.com/2009/09/02/profil-atypique-el-al-me-refoule-a-lembarquement" target="_blank">il ne faut pas être coréen</a>&#8230;). Intéressant donc, mais (presque) pas de BDs. Selon France Inter (époque Cluzel, pas époque Hees/Val, j&#8217;ai une conscience) un album devrait être produit.  Pas certain : Delisle indique qu&#8217;il a déjà fait des voyages sans produire de livre, parce que ça s&#8217;était bien passé/rien a raconter (Viet-Nam) ou parce qu&#8217;il n&#8217;avait pas trouvé de ligne éditoriale -ça me rappelle quelquechose <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8211; (Ethiopie). Donc pour l&#8217;instant, pas plus de nouvelles, mais on espère <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
<hr />Sinon, un petit mot complètement hors sujet pour signaler la sortie aujourd&#8217;hui de <a href="http://www.deezer.com/en/#music/miossec/finisteriens-382715" target="_blank">Finistériens</a>, un album de Miossec ET Tiersen ensemble ; c&#8217;est un peu un rêve qui se réalise&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA["Pyongyang": la tierra de Kim]]></title>
<link>http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/pyongyang-la-tierra-de-kim/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jeffreyabbot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/pyongyang-la-tierra-de-kim/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Con el tiempo me he vuelto fan de Delisle a pesar de que me costó mucho decidirme a leerle. Su estil]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1009" title="pyongyang" src="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/pyongyang.jpg" alt="pyongyang" width="300" height="443" />Con el tiempo me he vuelto fan de <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/" target="_blank">Delisle</a> a pesar de que me costó mucho decidirme a leerle. Su estilo de dibujo no me atraía en lo más mínimo y es difícil comprar un cómic si el dibujo no ayuda. Sin embargo, después de leer sus tres volúmenes sobre países asiáticos creo que ha hecho tres buenas obras.</p>
<p>Pyongyang es el segundo (cronológicamente hablando) álbum en que Delisle nos muestra la vida en un país asiático (después de <a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/shenzhen-la-insoportable-levedad-del-expatriado/" target="_self">Shenzen</a> y antes de <a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/cronicas-birmanas-una-ventana-a-la-dictadura-en-myanmar/" target="_self">Crónicas Birmanas</a>) con grandes peculiaridades. En este caso es Corea del Norte y su dictadura personalista que ahora mismo tiene como líder a Kim Jong Il, hijo de Kim Il Sung (primer líder de la Corea del Norte comunista después de la segunda guerra mundial).</p>
<p>Delisle muy fiel al estilo que empezó con Shenzen y acabó (hasta ahora) con Crónicas Birmanas, nos muestra una sucesión de anécdotas y hechos que le ocurrieron durante su estancia en Pyongyang como miembro de una empresa de animación. Muy al estilo de un libro de viajes, nos guiará por monumentos y visitas imprescindibles, mezcladas con el día a día en su trabajo.</p>
<p>Destacar, como en sus otras obras, la facilidad de lectura y la simplicidad (bien entendida) del guión. La verdad es que es una gozada leer a Delisle porque utiliza muy bien la ironía para criticar sin ofender más de lo necesario.</p>
<p>Por contra, una vez leídas sus tres obras en conjunto, pesan demasiado esas ganas de no pasarse criticando y sus cómics adolecen de compromiso. Esa visión aséptica que nos da de lo regímenes que visitó (aún cuando hay críticas directas hacia los tres gobiernos, estas son cuando menos, muy tibias) da una impresión muy &#8220;light&#8221; de lo que ocurre en Corea del Norte, China o Myanmar. Probablemente su intención sea tan solo mostrarnos la superficie con ironía y que cada cual extraiga sus propias conclusiones.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1018" title="pyongyang" src="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/pyongyang1.jpg?w=107" alt="pyongyang" width="107" height="150" /><strong>PYONGYANG</strong><br />
Guy Delisle<br />
Colección: Sillón Orejero<br />
Núm. Edición: 3<br />
Rústica con solapas<br />
B/N. 184 páginas.<br />
18 euros.<br />
ISBN: 978-84-96815-05-6</p>
<p>Posts relacionados:</p>
<p><a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/cronicas-birmanas-una-ventana-a-la-dictadura-en-myanmar/" target="_self">Crónicas Birmanas</a></p>
<p><a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/shenzhen-la-insoportable-levedad-del-expatriado/" target="_self">Shenzhen</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA["Crónicas Birmanas": pequeña ventana a Myanmar]]></title>
<link>http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/cronicas-birmanas-una-ventana-a-la-dictadura-en-myanmar/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jeffreyabbot</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ahora que vuelve a ser noticia el arresto domiciliario de Aung San Suu Kyi me ha venido a la cabeza ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-840" title="Cr_nicas_Birmanas_V" src="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/cr_nicas_birmanas_v.jpg" alt="Cr_nicas_Birmanas_V" width="218" height="354" />Ahora que vuelve a ser noticia el arresto domiciliario de <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Junta/birmana/alarga/prision/domiciliaria/Nobel/Suu/Kyi/elpepuint/20090812elpepiint_1/Tes" target="_blank">Aung San Suu Kyi</a> me ha venido a la cabeza &#8220;Crónicas Birmanas&#8221;, de Guy Delisle,  la mejor manera de tener una <em>ligera</em> idea de lo que se cuece en la antigua Birmania (ahora Myanmar).</p>
<p>En su tercera incursión en paises &#8220;no democráticos&#8221; después de &#8220;<a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/shenzhen-la-insoportable-levedad-del-expatriado/" target="_blank">Shenzhen</a>&#8221; y &#8220;Pyongyang&#8221;, Guy Delisle nos muestra en este &#8220;Crónicas Birmanas&#8221; el día a día de un extranjero en Myanmar. En este caso, al contrario que en sus dos obras anteriores (donde se desplazaba por trabajo), Delisle acompaña a su mujer (cooperante de Médicos sin Fronteras) a Rangun y se dedica principalmente a hacer de canguro de su hijo Louis.</p>
<p>El autor aprovecha su estancia para hacerse una idea del día a día en Myanmar y reflejarlo a su manera en esta obra que a pesar de tener una estructura sencilla y pocas pretensiones gráficas nos acerca de manera efectiva a la realidad de un país dominado desde hace más de 20 años por una junta militar. Delisle sigue estructurando sus cómics a través de anécdotas que se van sucediendo y que le sirven para explicar las penurias que pasan, en este caso, los habitantes de Birmania: censura, dificultad de acceso a la información (internet, televisión), cortes eléctricos&#8230; también muestra las dificultades de adaptación típicas de un occidental a la cultura y el clima birmanos (calor sofocante y húmedo, comida diferente&#8230;)</p>
<p>Delisle ha ido perfeccionando su técnica a través de los tres álbumes mencionados y parece haber encontrado un estilo muy característico que funciona a la perfección para las explicar sus historias.</p>
<p>Excelente y fácil lectura para saber algo más cuando estos días salga Aung San Suu Kyi por la tele.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-839" title="cronicasbirmanas" src="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/cronicasbirmanas.jpg?w=108" alt="cronicasbirmanas" width="102" height="138" /><strong>Crónicas Birmanas</strong><br />
Guy Delisle<br />
Colección: Colección Sillón Orejero<br />
Rústica con solapas<br />
B/N.<br />
272 páginas.<br />
20 euros.<br />
ISBN: 978-84-96815-66-7</p>
<p>Posts Relacionados:<br />
<a href="http://trazosenelbloc.blogspot.com/2009/01/critica-cronicas-birmanas-de-guy.html" target="_blank">Una crítica un poco más extensa</a><br />
<a href="http://kozmicbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/shenzhen-la-insoportable-levedad-del-expatriado/" target="_self">&#8220;Shenzhen”: la insoportable levedad del expatriado (by George Smiley)</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Novela gráfica y Cómic Independiente en ciclic librería ]]></title>
<link>http://ciclic.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/novela-grafica-independiente-en-ciclic-libreria/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pocas artes requieren medios tan escuetos como el Cómic, eso lo convierte en un arte popular, que mu]]></description>
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<link>http://msantaella.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/cinco-meses-cambiando-los-habitos-de-lectura/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Esto va camino de parto. Ya hasta sé el sexo de la criatura. Llevo cinco meses tratando de acabar un]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Esto va camino de parto. Ya hasta sé el sexo de la criatura. Llevo cinco meses tratando de acabar un libro y voy por poco más de la mitad. O sea que sí,  que va para largo. No sé si Internet o la televisión, aparte del trabajo (claro), son los responsables de esta odisea. También podría ser que el libro fuera un tostón.  O que yo estuviera perdiendo mi pasión por la lectura.</p>
<p>Voy a tener que recurrir al plan B: a partir de ahora sólo me pondré con novelas gráficas. Si no sois muy puritanos/as, la obra<em> Fresa y Chocolate</em>, de Aurélia Aurita, es como mínimo una curiosa reflexión sobre el amor, el sexo y la pareja: reflejándolo todo, detalles (encima con dibujitos) que normalmente no nos solemos encontrar fuera del ámbito de la pornografía. Por cierto, hay dos partes. Más divertida aun, <em>Pyongyang, </em>de Guy Delisle. En esta obra, el escritor canadiense nos cuenta su experiencia en la capital de Corea del Norte. Al ser uno de los pocos occidentales que ha tenido la ocasión de trabajar allí y vivir durante un periodo más o menos prolongado, resulta de especial interés para conocer el contraste entre la cultura de este país (y su terrible dictadura) y la de Occidente. ¡Cuidado! El humor de Delisle puede provocar desprendimiento de mandíbula. Anteriormente, había publicado una de temática, <em>Shenzhen</em>, de tono similar, pero como no la he leído tampoco puedo comentar nada (la trilogía la completaría la novela <em>Crónicas Birmanas</em>). Por cierto, que nadie espere de estas obras unos dibujos espectaculares ni nada por el estilo. El contenido prevalece.</p>
<div id="attachment_1124" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 428px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1124" title="pyongyang" src="http://msantaella.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/pyongyang.jpg" alt="pyongyang" width="418" height="231" /><p class="wp-caption-text">CONCURSO: Un vil espía imperialista pagado por el Gobierno títere de Corea del Sur se ha infiltrado en este grupo de revolucionarios de voluntad de hierro: ¿cuál es el espía? RESPUESTA: El número 6 porque no lleva puesto su pin oficial de Kim Il-Sung o Kim Jong-Il</p></div>
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<p>Como me he desvíado, para no perder el hábito, iba a comentar la opción C: seguir los pasos de Pensamientos Deformados y su máxima de: &#8220;Si los mejores libros, tienen todos menos de 150 páginas, ¿para qué voy a leerme un tochaco?&#8221;. El argumento es falaz (el Quijote, <em>Cien años de soledad</em>,<em> En busca del tiempo perdido</em>&#8230; por poner ejemplos que te vienen rápidamente a la cabeza), pero como seguimos el proceso de autosugestión, autoengaño, tan primordial para poder ser feliz (o creer serlo, que también vale); pues lo tendremos que adoptar como máxima<em> sine qua non</em> a la hora de seleccionar literatura. Eso sí, básicamente te tienes que pasar de la prosa al teatro y la poesía&#8230; En fin, siguen quedándonos <em>El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde</em>, <em>El Aleph</em> (para quien le guste Borges), <em>Rebelión en la granja</em> o la imprescindible <em>Crónica de una muerte anunciada</em>. Bueno, en verdad sigue habiendo mucha tela que cortar dentro del cientocincuenta-paginismo.</p>
<p>La opción D creo que es mejor ni plantearla: dejar de trabajar y dedicarse a la &#8220;vida contemplativa&#8221; que tanto adoraban los griegos, pero esa va a ser que no&#8230;</p>
<p>P.D. Cada vez estoy más convencido: estos antiguos griegos nos jodieron pero a base de bien&#8230; ¡Hay que ver la cantidad de ideas que nos legaron que contribuyen a nuestra insatisfacción: democracia, meritocracia, vida contemplativa&#8230;! ¡Ay, cómo me gustaría ver a Aristóteles dando sus paseítos por una calle de Madrid, de Nuevo México, de Sydney o de Nueva York!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Un primo piccolo passo alla scoperta dell'ignoto]]></title>
<link>http://anothereurope.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/un-primo-piccolo-passo-alla-scoperta-dellignoto/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>francesca</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Della Corea del Nord, come di molte altre cose, so pochissimo, praticamente nulla. So solo che sta s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Della Corea del Nord, come di molte altre cose, so pochissimo, praticamente nulla. So solo che sta sopra la Corea del Sud, so che la sua capitale si chiama Pyongyang, so che è un paese comunista, so che Kim Il-Sung ne è stato e ne è &#8211; anche da morto &#8211; il Presidente, so che ora al potere c&#8217;è suo figlio, il Caro Leader, so che ogni tanto lancia dei missili in mezzo al mare e so che la sua popolazione non se la passa bene.</p>
<p>Se cerco degli articoli sulla Corea del Nord, trovo solo la faccenda dei missili (<a href="http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica?query=corea%20del%20nord&#38;view=archivio">provare per credere</a>) o quella dei diritti umani (<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/ai_search?keywords=north+korea&#38;op=Search&#38;form_id=search_theme_form&#38;form_token=4f4076258c177f0a892b28564d51ce36">qui</a>, ad esempio).</p>
<p>In un caso di ignoranza totale come questo, in cui non ho il minimo accesso alle informazioni locali perché, tra le varie cose, ne ignoro anche la lingua, mi sono chiesta come poter iniziare a capirne qualcosa di più senza per forza dover andarmi a leggere qualche tomo di saggistica di qualche autore occidentale che ne abbia scritto senza magari mai averci messo piede.</p>
<p>Già, come?</p>
<p>Alla vista di un volumetto dalla copertina grigia con la scritta Pyongyang sotto il nome di Guy Delisle, mi sono risposta così: ma sì, partiamo dai fumetti.</p>
<p>Guy Delisle è un occidentale (canadese del Québec), il che mi ha consentito di capirne le parole scritte nelle nuvolette di fumo, e sì, avrà avuto certamente anche lui, come tutti, una visione della Corea del Nord sommaria e condizionata dalle poche e monocordi notizie della stampa, però Guy Delisle in Corea del Nord ci ha lavorato per due mesi nel 2001 per supervisionare la realizzazione di un progetto di cartoni animati affidato ad un gruppo di disegnatori di una società di Pyongyang e ha deciso di riportarne le impressioni senza particolari pretese, in modo semplice e &#8211; mi pare di aver avvertito &#8211; molto onesto, con estrema attenzione per i piccoli particolari e col solo ausilio dei disegni e di poche parole. Siccome poi mi è parso che si sia avvicinato al Paese con un atteggiamento molto simile a quello che avrei avuto io se solo avessi avuto l&#8217;opportunità di visitarlo, riportarne le informazioni ricavate non è solo vedere quanto piccolo o meno possa essere un primo passo nella direzione della conoscenza grazie ad una semplice opera di fumetti, ma è anche il breve resoconto di un viaggio fatto con uno sguardo che probabilmente molti di noi occidentali avremmo potuto avere al primo contatto con un Paese così lontano e isolato dal resto del mondo.</p>
<p><strong>L&#8217;arrivo</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Alla dogana il romanzo 1984 di Orwell, un lettore CD e un CD di Aphex Twin passano dopo accurato controllo. La radio non è gradita.  Subito dopo l&#8217;arrivo all&#8217;aeroporto, la guida di turno si occupa di dare al viaggiatore un mazzo di fiori, il cui scopo si chiarisce poco dopo, nel corso della prima tappa caldamente consigliata al viaggiatore, tappa che avviene prima della sistemazione nell&#8217;albergo.</p>
<p><strong>La guida</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Non si può visitare il Paese senza un accompagnatore o un traduttore perennemente alle calcagna. Vigila di continuo, per strada e in albergo, di tanto in tanto si infila anche in camera per dare un&#8217;occhiata o raccomandare la moderazione del volume della musica occidentale, suggerisce le tappe della visita, impartisce istruzioni sul comportamento da tenere nei luoghi dedicati al culto del Presidente.</p>
<p><strong>L&#8217;albergo</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>A Pyongyang ce ne sono tre per gli stranieri, ognuno con i suoi vantaggi: il Koryo, in pieno centro, unico posto dove si trova il gelato, il Potonggang, con la televisione via cavo (CNN), lo Yangakkdo, palazzone di 50 piani con un ristorante panoramico in cima, il cui solo piano illuminato è il 15°, quello in cui alloggiano gli stranieri, ma solo con lampadine che non superano i 40 W. In assenza di delegazioni straniere, le luci vengono per lo più mantenute spente e la varietà del cibo ridotta di conseguenza.</p>
<p><strong>Pyongyang</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Ci sono macchine, ma non tante, tram, begli autobus ungheresi degli anni &#8216;50 con delle stelle sui fianchi (ogni stella equivale a 5000 km percorsi senza incidenti), camion, un metrò posto a 90 metri nel sottosuolo illuminato a giorno che può fungere anche da rifugio antinucleare in caso di necessità, tutto è pulito, nessuno va a zonzo, ma tutti camminano verso una meta precisa, l&#8217;ambiente è asettico, tutto è nuovo, ricostruito dopo i bombardamenti della guerra del 1950-1953, che l&#8217;aveva rasa al suolo. Gli unici stranieri sono quelli delle ONG, quelli dell&#8217;ONU e una delegazione americana alla ricerca dei corpi dei soldati caduti nella guerra di Corea, per il recupero di ognuno dei quali è concordato, se intero e identificato, un prezzo di 100.000$.</p>
<p><strong>I monumenti, i musei, i luoghi visitabili, le cose consentite</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Le statue di Kim Il-Sung.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Arco di Trionfo, 3 metri più alto di quello parigino: celebra la vittoria sull&#8217;occupante giapponese nel 1945.</p>
<p>La Torre dell&#8217;Idea <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche">Juche</a>, l&#8217;ideologia di base del regime nordcoreano.</p>
<p>Al termine di un&#8217;autostrada che parte da Pyongyang e che non ha alcuna uscita intermedia, deserta al punto che è possibile sostare nella corsia di sorpasso in caso di necessità, il Museo dell&#8217;Amicizia, ricavato in una montagna in modo da poter resistere ad un eventuale attacco nucleare e contenente tutti i 211.688 doni ricevuti da Kim Il-Sung da parte di 174 Paesi. Nella stanza in cui è ospitata una statua di cera a grandezza naturale di Kim Il-Sung, in cui si entra non prima di essersi sistemati il colletto della camicia e non senza il necessario preliminare raccoglimento, nella luce e nell&#8217;atmosfera musicale soffuse, ci si inchina a 90°.</p>
<p>Il Taekwon-do Hall.</p>
<p>Il poligono di tiro per esercitarsi al tiro con pistole russe.</p>
<p>Il Palazzo dei Bambini, una scuola di informatica, musica, calligrafia, ecc. per bambini superdotati.</p>
<p>Il Magazzino N. 1, unico grande magazzino, contenente pochi generi e tipi di articoli, ma in numero impressionante.</p>
<p>Lo Studio Cinematografico Statale, con scenografie dedicate a poco prima, durante e poco dopo l&#8217;occupazione giapponese e a poco prima, durante e poco dopo la guerra di Corea.</p>
<p>Il Museo dell&#8217;Occupazione Imperialista, dedicato alla guerra di Corea e alle barbarie commesse dagli statunitensi ai danni del popolo coreano.</p>
<p>I due canali televisivi domenicali e il canale televisivo infrasettimanale, con programmi di notizie dedicati alle visite di Kim Jong-Il, ai cori cantati dall&#8217;esercito e composti da Kim Jong-Il, lungometraggi intitolati &#8220;Il destino di un membro del corpo di autodifesa&#8221;, &#8220;Il canto dei compagni&#8221;, &#8220;Mare di sangue&#8221;.</p>
<p>Seguire la guida.</p>
<p><strong>I luoghi non visitabili, le cose vietate (a seconda dei casi, agli stranieri, ai locali, ad entrambi)</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>La nave spia statunitense Pueblo 2, attraccata ad una riva del fiume Taedong, catturata dai nordcoreani nel 1968.</p>
<p>La zona della città riservata ai dirigenti del partito.</p>
<p>La Coca Cola.</p>
<p>Girare senza guida.</p>
<p>Introdurre una radio nel Paese.</p>
<p>Scherzare sul Presidente o sul Caro Leader o su annessi e connessi.</p>
<p>Ottenere una bicicletta per farci un giro.</p>
<p><strong>Il culto della personalità</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>I ritratti di Kim Il-Sung, morto nel 1994 ma tuttora Presidente, campeggiano ovunque: accolgono il visitatore fin dall&#8217;aeroporto, dove uno ne sovrasta l&#8217;edificio principale, e lo accompagnano in tutto il suo percorso. Le foto di papà Kim e di suo figlio Kim Jong-Il, generale che non ha mai fatto il servizio militare, ritoccate in modo da non rivelare i capelli grigi e il tumore del primo e gli occhiali e il sovrappeso del secondo, si trovano in tutte le stanze, con l&#8217;eccezione dei bagni, di tutti gli appartamenti di tutti i piani di tutti gli edifici. I quadri sono collocati ad una precisa altezza, più in alto dello sguardo dell&#8217;osservatore, e sono più larghi in cima che alla base, per evitare i riflessi del sole e, rispettivamente, aumentarne l&#8217;intensità dello sguardo. Ai ritratti si aggiungono le statue, di cui quella di Kim Il-Sung in bronzo alta 22 metri è la prima tappa obbligata della visita di Pyongyang subito dopo l&#8217;arrivo in aeroporto, di fronte alla quale ci si inchina e ai piedi della quale si depone il mazzo di fiori ricevuto allo sbarco, le spillette con padre e/o figlio indossate da tutti, le proiezioni dell&#8217;immagine di Kim Jong-Il sui sipari, la composizione di immagini gigantesche di Kim Jong-Il fatte di pixel umani in occasione della annuale Celebrazione Antiimperialista e gli slogan.  Il culto della personalità si estende al calendario, che parte dall&#8217;istante del concepimento di Kim Il-Sung, il 15 aprile del 1912. Nel 2009, siamo quindi nello Juche 98.</p>
<p><strong>Gli slogan</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Si trovano su cartelloni in città, su cartelli innalzati in mezzo al nulla della campagna, scolpiti sui fianchi rocciosi delle montagne, cantati alla radio.</p>
<p>L&#8217;esercito è il popolo, il popolo è l&#8217;esercito.</p>
<p>Affrontiamo il XXI secolo con la fierezza di aver costruito un grande Paese.</p>
<p>Proseguiamo ridendo, malgrado le difficoltà.</p>
<p>Il nome di Kim Il-Sung resterà inciso per sempre nel cuore del suo popolo.</p>
<p>Resteremo fedeli di generazione in generazione (testo di una canzone).</p>
<p>I bambini sono il tesoro del nostro Paese.</p>
<p>Noi siamo i più felici del mondo.</p>
<p>Lunga vita al nostro invincibile Maresciallo Kim Jong-Il.</p>
<p><strong>La popolazione</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>La popolazione nordcoreana si suddivide in popolazione utile:</p>
<p>i leali (quadri del partito ed esercito),</p>
<p>i tiepidi (operai specializzati, soldati, diplomatici),  e</p>
<p>in popolazione inutile:</p>
<p>gli ostili (discendenti di genitori colpevoli, prigionieri politici &#8211; 200.000 -, manodopera),</p>
<p>gli ignorati (da 5 a 6 milioni di persone).</p>
<p>Attraverso il razionamento si decide chi può sopravvivere e chi no. I leali e i tiepidi sono sufficientemente nutriti, gli ostili hanno diritto a 250 g di riso al giorno, gli ignorati a niente. Molte ONG hanno abbandonato progressivamente il Paese per non continuare ad alimentare il regime.</p>
<p>Dei &#8220;volontari&#8221; si dedicano a dipingere di bianco i sassi che decorano la base degli alberi, di blu i ponti, a raccogliere il riso nei campi, a bagnare le aiuole a secchiate prelevando l&#8217;acqua da fontane.</p>
<p>La popolazione ha paura di finire, al minimo errore, nei campi di rieducazione, ufficialmente inesistenti, ma di cui tutti conoscono l&#8217;ubicazione, nel nordest del Paese. La colpevolezza del singolo può estendersi alla colpevolezza di tutta la sua famiglia.</p>
<p>I ragazzi portano il fondo dei pantaloni infilati nelle calze se fa freddo, e li ritirano ad altezza ginocchio se fa caldo, le ragazze una gonna sotto il ginocchio e una camicia abbottonata fino al collo, spesso dei gambaletti e, sopra, dei calzini.</p>
<p>Dopo che Kim Jong-Il ha dichiarato pericolosa la bicicletta per le donne, queste usano per lo più dei tricicli.</p>
<p>Agli stranieri che si avventurino per la città fuggendo per un istante dalla guida, nessuno rivolge lo sguardo o la parola, probabilmente per evitare problemi.</p>
<p>Non si vede alcun handicappato in giro.</p>
<p><strong>L&#8217;esercito</strong></p>
<p>È il quarto esercito al mondo.</p>
<p>È forte di:</p>
<p>più di 1 milione di soldati,</p>
<p>4 milioni di riservisti che si possono mobilitare nel giro di qualche giorno,</p>
<p>2000 carri armati posizionati lungo la frontiera,</p>
<p>600 missili Scud, Nodong (orgoglio nazionale), con il Taepodong testato nel 1998 facendolo passare sopra il Giappone,</p>
<p>4000 ton di armi biochimiche,</p>
<p>uno sconosciuto numero di armi nucleari.</p>
<p>Links:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/">Il sito dell&#8217;autore del fumetto</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fusiorari.it/delisle.htm">Il sito della casa editrice che ne ha curato l&#8217;edizione italiana</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fusiorari.it/delisle.htm"></a>Gruppi di flickr dedicati alla <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/dprk/">Corea del Nord</a> e a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/pyongyang/">Pyongyang</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://juche.v.wol.ne.jp/defaulte.htm">Un sito dedicato allo studio dell&#8217;ideologia Juche, apparentemente privo di dubbi</a>. Il Vicepresidente della società europea è <a href="http://juche.v.wol.ne.jp/news/e0902-1.pdf">Bruno Amoroso</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.korea-dpr.com/">Il sito della Korean Friendship Association</a>, che ha anche una <a href="http://www.korea-dpr.com/users/italy/page0/page0.html">sezione italiana</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://it.peacereporter.net/area/66/1/Corea+del+Nord">Gli articoli di Peace Reporter dedicati alla Corea del Nord</a>.</p>
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<link>http://anothereurope.wordpress.com/?p=1580</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>francesca</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Trois petits chats, cortometraggio di Guy Delisle ispirato da una nota filastrocca, di cui esistono ]]></description>
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<p><em>Trois petits chats</em>, cortometraggio di Guy Delisle ispirato da una nota filastrocca, di cui esistono molte varianti. Questa è una.</p>
<p>Trois p&#8217;tits chats, trois p&#8217;tits chats, trois p&#8217;tits chats, chats, chats<br />
Chapeau d&#8217;paille, chapeau d&#8217;paille, chapeau d&#8217;paille, paille, paille<br />
Paillasson, paillasson, paillasson, sson, sson<br />
Somnambule, somnambule, somnambule, bule, bule<br />
Bulletin, bulletin, bulletin, tin, tin<br />
Tintamarre, tintamarre, tintamarre, marre, marre<br />
Marabout, marabout, marabout, bout, bout,<br />
Bout d&#8217;ficelle, bout d&#8217;ficelle, bout d&#8217;ficelle, celle, celle<br />
Selle de ch&#8217;val, selle de ch&#8217;val, selle de ch&#8217;val, ch&#8217;val, ch&#8217;cval<br />
Ch&#8217;val de course, ch&#8217;val de course, ch&#8217;val de course, course, course<br />
Course à pied, course à pied, course à pied, pied, pied<br />
Pied-à-terre, pied-à-terre, pied-à-terre, terre, terre<br />
Terrassier, terrassier, terrassier, sier, sier<br />
Scier du bois, scier du bois, scier du bois, bois, bois,<br />
Boisson chaude, boisson chaude, boisson chaude, chaude, chaude<br />
Chaudière, chaudière, chaudière, ière, ière<br />
Hier au soir, hier au soir, hier au soir, soir, soir<br />
Soir d&#8217;hiver, soir d&#8217;hiver, soir d&#8217;hiver, ver, ver<br />
Vermifuge, vermifuge, vermifuge, fuge, fuge<br />
Fugitif, fugitif, fugitif, tif, tif<br />
Typhoïde, typhoïde, typhoïde, ide, ide<br />
Identique, identique, identique, tique, tique<br />
Tic nerveux, tic nerveux, tic nerveux, veux, veux<br />
Veuve de guerre, veuve de guerre, veuve de guerre, guerre, guerre<br />
Guerre de Troie, guerre de Troie, guerre de Troie, Troie, Troie<br />
Trois p&#8217;tits chats, trois p&#8217;tits chats, trois p&#8217;tits chats, chats, chats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/index.html">Delisle</a> è nato nel Québec nel 1966. Racconta i suoi viaggi (in <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/c_birmanes/index.html">Birmania</a>, in <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/pyongyang/pages/index.html">Corea del Nord</a>, in <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/shenzhen/index.html">Cina</a>) in forma di fumetti. Attualmente si trova in <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/WordPress/">Israele</a>.</p>
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<link>http://viapozzo6.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/animals/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>viapozzo6</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In via Pozzo 6 è arrivata una nuova rivista. Si chiama ANIMAls, in copertina c&#8217;è scritto: fume]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-870" title="animals_1" src="http://viapozzo6.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/animals_1.jpg" alt="animals_1" width="178" height="240" />In via Pozzo 6 è arrivata una nuova rivista. Si chiama ANIMA<em>ls, </em>in copertina c&#8217;è scritto: <em>fumetti, storie, la vita e nient&#8217;altro.</em> E&#8217; un mensile di circa cento pagine a colori al costo di cinque euro. I fumetti hanno molto spazio e un buon respiro nelle pagine. Potrebbe diventare un culto.</p>
<p>Di questo secondo numero segnalo Gipi e Guy Delisle. Gipi ha cinque pagine in bianco e nero con una storia spassosa che si intitola &#8220;Il Genio&#8221;. I fumetti di Gipi sono pazzeschi: i disegni sono semplici ma spaventosamente efficaci mentre le storie e i testi sono acuti e ricchi di ironia. Siamo molto affezionati alla <em>striscia di Gipi</em> pubblicata su <em>Internazionale </em>ma per quanto mi riguarda i veri capolavori sono i libri a colori dove le tavole pittoriche abbiante ai suoi disegni creano un risultato sorprendente. Una volta abbiamo incontrato Gipi a Lucca Comix dove ho preso un bellissimo libro che si intitola <em>Esterno Notte </em>(ed. Coconino Press)<em>.</em></p>
<p>Guy Delisle ha una decina di pagine a colori con una storia che si intitola <em>Tiananmen</em>. Anche qui i disegni sono molto semplici e le vignette praticamente monocrome. Delisle è un bravissimo disegnatore e un attento viaggiatore. Racconta quello che vede con semplicità e ironia partento sempre dall&#8217;esperienza personale che ha di ogni luogo e di ogni eprsona. Segnalo <em>Pyongyang </em>(2003) pubblicato da Fusi Orari.</p>
<p>Questo è il link al blog della rivista: <a href="http://animals-theblog.blogspot.com">Animals</a></p>
<p>e questo è il link al sito di Guy Delisle: <a href="http://guydelisle.com">Guy</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Defining 'international' YA ]]></title>
<link>http://booksnotborders.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/defining-international-ya/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In looking at international YA in the library, one of issues that I keep coming back to is how hard ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-62" title="intntl YA" src="http://booksnotborders.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/intntl-ya2.jpg?w=150" alt="intntl YA" width="181" height="164" />In looking at international YA in the library, one of issues that I keep coming back to is how hard it is to categorize and define the &#8216;international&#8217; in international young adult literature.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Does &#8216;international&#8217; mean works published abroad? Works published domestically by &#8216;international&#8217; authors? Works published <em>about </em>international topics?  Or does it refer to works that also might be called &#8216;multicultural&#8217;?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Generally speaking, here in Canada and in the US, I have noticed four broad types of books considered &#8216;international&#8217; in various booklists, awards and library resources.* Categories 1 and 2 tend to be the most popular in US and Canadian libraries &#8211; and they are the books published domestically, in English. Categories 3 and 4, by contrast &#8211; those books published abroad (i.e. outside of Canada or the US) &#8211; tend to be more difficult to find in US or Canadian libraries, and they tend to be the type of books not normally labeled &#8216;international&#8217; like manga, fantasy, humor or general YA literature.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">But, to break it down further, here are the 4 categories of books labeled &#8216;international&#8217; that I have found thus far in my research:</p>
<p>1. Books written and published in Canada/US <em>for a domestic audience </em>by &#8216;international&#8217; authors originally from different countries writing about their home countries such as:</p>
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<li><span><span>Ting-xing Ye</span>&#8217;s autobiographical tale of life during the Cultural Revolution in China, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312379870/ref=s9_simz_gw_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#38;pf_rd_s=center-1&#38;pf_rd_r=1WZH5PY7QS850XE1GN8S&#38;pf_rd_t=101&#38;pf_rd_p=470938131&#38;pf_rd_i=507846"><em>My Name is Number Four</em></a>, or her fictional work detailing the lives of young female migrant workers in China, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Mountain-Girl-River-Ting-xing-Ye/dp/0143168126/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245803266&#38;sr=8-2"><em>Mountain Girl River Girl</em></a></li>
<li>Emmanuel Jah&#8217;s autobiographical story of life as child soldier in Southern Sudan, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/v-War-Child-Soldiers-Story/dp/0312383223/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245803305&#38;sr=1-1"><em>War Child</em></a>; or Ishmael Beah&#8217;s memoir of his similar story as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374105235">A Long Way Gone</a></em></li>
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<p>2. Books written and published in Canada/US<em> for a domestic audience </em>about an international topic set abroad such as:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Chandas-Secrets-Allan-Stratton/dp/1550378341"><em>Chanda&#8217;s Secrets</em></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Chandas-Wars-Allan-Stratton/dp/0060872659/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245803578&#38;sr=1-5"><em>Chanda&#8217;s Wars</em></a> &#8211; two fictional, though realistic, stories written by Canadian author, Allan Stratton, which focus on the issues of AIDS and mass violence in sub-Saharan Africa</li>
<li>Journalist&#8217;s Joe Sacco&#8217;s graphic novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Joe-Sacco/dp/156097432X"><em>Palestine</em></a>, which details his interviews in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s or Guy Delisle&#8217;s graphic account of time spent in Burma, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Burma-Chronicles-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299508/ref=pd_sim_b_2">The Burma Chronicles</a></em></li>
<li>Audience &#8212; written for the domestic Canadian/American audience <em><br />
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<p>3. Books originally written/published abroad <em>for an international audience </em>and published in translation in the Canada/US such as:</p>
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<li>The recent winner of the ALA&#8217;s Batchelder Award for best YA book in translation, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Spirit-Moribito-Nahoko-Uehashi/dp/0545005434/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245812648&#38;sr=1-1"><em>Morbibito: Guardian of the Spirit</em></a>, a medieval-era fantasy  by Nahoko Uehashi and translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano</li>
<li>Cornelia Funke&#8217;s multiple fantastical tomes from Germany including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inkheart-Cornelia-Funke-Hardcover/dp/0439852706/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245812760&#38;sr=1-3"><em>Inkheart</em></a>,<em> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Rider-Cornelia-Funke/dp/190444248X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245812710&#38;sr=1-1">The Dragon Rider</a> </em>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thief-Lord-Cornelia-Caroline-Funke/dp/1903434777/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245812739&#38;sr=1-2"><em>The Thief Lord</em></a></li>
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<p>4. Books originally written and published abroad in English <em>for an international audience</em> and then distributed in Canada/US such as:</p>
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<li>Melina Marchetta&#8217;s absorbing novel of YA suspense and family secrets, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jellicoe-Road-Melina-Marchetta/dp/0061431834/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1245812846&#38;sr=1-1">Jellicoe Road</a></em>, from Australia &#8211; winner of the 2009 Printz Award for  excellence in YA literature or <a href="http://www.shauntan.net/books.html">Shaun Tan</a>&#8217;s multiple YA picture books (like <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Red-Tree-Shaun-Tan/dp/0968876838"><em>The Red Tree</em></a>) also from Australia</li>
<li>Louise Rennison&#8217;s multiple <a href="http://www.georgia-nicolson.co.uk/books/item-58/">Confessions of Georgia Nicolson </a>books from the UK, all related in a confessional diary style à la Adrian Mole</li>
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<p>The difficulty with these categories and the multiplicity of definitions for &#8216;international&#8217; can, I think, be attributed to issues of accessibility, cost and collections.</p>
<p>Books from categories 3 and 4 are much more difficult to find &#8211; note that even the books I have mentioned in the categories above are from Australia, Europe and Japan, even though YA titles are published worldwide and many countries/regions like India and East Africa often publish in English.</p>
<p>Cost is certainly also part of this equation. To translate an international book or find a domestic distributor/publisher for one demands time and funds and in order to ensure a profitable return on this investment, it often seems that only those that are the best of the best and/or the most popular globally &#8211; like <em>Moribito</em> or Cornelia Funke&#8217;s novels -  get translated into English. The issue with this being that these books represent only a fraction of what is published internationally.</p>
<p><em>Moribito</em>, for example, was originally published in Japan in the mid-1990s, has 10 books in its series, and has spawned various manga and anime incarnations. When it was translated and published in English in 2008 by Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic Inc.) <em>Moribito </em>was already a successful book with a dedicated audience.</p>
<p>There also seems to be significant conflation of the terms, ‘international’ and ‘multicultural’ in many collections – labeling that can create library collections that may seem  &#8216;international&#8217; on the surface, but that may lack any books from categories 3 and 4.</p>
<p>The concern I have with the popularity of categories 1 and 2 in library catalogues is the question of representation. As you can see from most of the titles, especially in categories 1 and 2 (which are the most represented in libraries currently), there is a definite pedagogical and didactic bent to most ‘international’ works &#8211; many are about war, struggles with oppression, poverty, etc. The over-representation of these types of works in a collection that is supposed to be diverse can reinforce, not expand, a decidedly Western worldview – which is not the purpose of international YA as most would describe it.</p>
<p>In <em>Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World</em> (1993), Hazel Rochman wrote that the “stories you read can transform you because they help you imagine beyond yourself. If you read only what mirrors your view of yourself, you get locked in…buried.” (pp. 11)  Rochman further added that “reading makes immigrants of us all – it takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere” (pp. 15).</p>
<p>My primary concern here is that some of the ways in which we discuss or define the  ‘international’ in young adult literature today is limiting this potential.</p>
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<p><strong>*Books NOT Borders note</strong>: for the purpose of my research and this blog I am looking at the US and Canada as my &#8216;domestic&#8217; market, and everything written or published outside Canada and the US as &#8216;international.&#8217; While there are distinct differences between the two countries, generally speaking—in librarianship—there are significant similarities and overlap particularly in the use of ALA materials (especially YALSA) north of the border in Canada, and in the abundance of American literature in Canadian libraries.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Nachtrag zu Deslisle]]></title>
<link>http://spirograf.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/nachtrag-zu-deslisle/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>spirograf</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Auf der Seite von Guy Deslisle gibt es kleine Einblicke in die aktuelle Expedition. Die Familie lebt]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Auf der Seite von <a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/WordPress/">Guy Deslisle </a>gibt es kleine Einblicke in die aktuelle Expedition.<br />
Die Familie lebt zur Zeit für ein Jahr in Ost-Jerusalem, zwei Schritte von der palästinensischen Grenze entfernt.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Minga laba]]></title>
<link>http://spirograf.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/minga-laba/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://spirograf.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/minga-laba/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wenn es damals doch solche Hefte zur politischen Bildung gegeben hätte. So musste ich auf die ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Wenn es damals doch solche Hefte zur politischen Bildung gegeben hätte.<br />
So musste ich auf die &#8220;Aufzeichnungen aus Birma&#8221; warten, um zu erfahren, welche Alltagshürden man überwinden muss, um in diesem Land sein Leben einzurichten, wie es regiert wird, wie die Straßen dort aussehen, was die Leute unter der Woche so machen, wie die medizinische Versorgung ausschaut, wie heiß heiß sein kann. Und wo genau es liegt, wusste ich übrigens auch nicht.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-516" title="deslisle" src="http://spirograf.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/deslisle.jpg?w=100" alt="deslisle" width="100" height="150" />Guy Deslisle legt sein drittes Buch aus den terris incognitis der politischen Landkarte unserer Gegenwart vor: gemalte Romane aus der Lebenswirklichkeit abgeschotteter Diktaturen. In &#8220;Shenzhen&#8221; und &#8220;Pjöngjang&#8221; (wir berichteten) war er als Profi der internationalen Comicindustrie unterwegs und erzählte ausführlich von den Arbeitswelten dieser malträtierten Länder. Dieses Mal ist seine Perspektive noch ungleich subversiver. Er ist mitreisender Ehemann,  seine Frau arbeitet für Médicins sans Frontières in Birma. Und er ist der Papa von Louis. Deslisle erlebt den Aufenthalt in Rangun als Vater eines Kleinkindes &#8211; Windeln wechseln, Wohnug finden, Essen kaufen, Kindergartenplatz und Spielgruppe finden, Abendspaziergänge und  die Gespräche mit den anderen mitreisenden Ehegatten. Das könnte unendlich langweilig sein, doch Deslisles Blick &#8211; genau, reflexiv, begabt mit Witz und Selbstironie &#8211; und seine episodenhafte Erzählweise, die im besten Sinne politisiert und kenntnisreich ist und dabei immer verspielt-poetisch bleibt, machen aus diesen Aufzeichnungen ein großes Buch voller kleiner Momente. Als Leser kennt man nach der Lektüre nicht die touristischen Sehenwürdigkeiten von Rangun, aber doch die Supermärkte, ein, zwei Straßenzüge, Nachbarn und NGOs aller Couleur, ein paar Büros, Militärs, Krankenhäuser und einige nette Partys.</p>
<p>Der Anti-Held mit dem flachen Hinterkopf ist der neue, sympathische Typus des brillanten Enthnologen, des Abenteurers nach dem Ende aller Abenteuer. Deslisle hat keine Mission zu bestehen, er übt die anteilnehmende Beobachtung aus in einem Land, das beinahe surreal in seiner diktatorischen Inszenierung anmutet. Seine Schwarzweiß-Zeichnungen haben oft einen skizzenhaften Charakter, doch wenn er die Aufmerksamkeit auf Details lenken will, sind die Bilder genau und sprechend zuweilen in ihren Auslassungen. &#8220;Lässig&#8221; möchte man am liebsten sagen, echt lässig und schlau. Hervorzuheben ist die gute Übersetzungsleistung von Kai Wilksen.<br />
Eine Leseprobe gibt es auf der <a href="http://www.reprodukt.com/product_info.php?products_id=311">Reprodukt-Seite</a>.</p>
<p>Guy Deslisle: Aufzeichnungen aus Birma<em>. Reprodukt: Berlin Mai 2009. </em><a href="http://www.reprodukt.com/product_info.php?products_id=311&#38;osCsid=a2b1abac1226496d9154cc8726b040df" target="_blank"><em> </em></a><em>Aus dem Französischen von Kai Wilksen, Handlettering von Céline Merrien, 272 Seiten, 20 Euro. ISBN 978-3-941099-01-2<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Cronicas Birmanas ]]></title>
<link>http://nazrem.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/cronicas-birmanas/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://nazrem.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/cronicas-birmanas/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Novela grafica de Guy Delisle, nos cuenta su vida cotidiana en Rangun (ciudad regida bajo dictadura ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">Novela grafica de Guy Delisle, nos cuenta su vida cotidiana en Rangun (ciudad regida bajo dictadura militar) acompañando a su pareja, miembro de Medicos Sin Fronteras&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Descarga</strong> <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3wiol2251yn"><strong><em>Cronicas Birmanas</em></strong></a></p>
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<link>http://comicbookjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/comic-events-june/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
<guid>http://comicbookjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/comic-events-june/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[D+Q anniversary poster   Wishing I was in Montreal Tomorrow (June 3), TV on The Radio and Dirty Proj]]></description>
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<p><strong>Wishing I was in Montreal</strong></p>
<p>Tomorrow (June 3), <a href="http://www.tvontheradio.com/" target="_blank">TV on The Radio</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors" target="_blank">Dirty Projectors</a> play the <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/blog/2009_03_01_archive.php#5826574821686827538" target="_blank">Drawn + Quarterly 20th anniversary</a> bash. Twenty years already? That&#8217;s crazy. So much talent there: Chester Brown, Seth, Guy Delisle. I wrote this <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20050602_132857_5012" target="_blank">review of Michel Rabagliati&#8217;s </a><em><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20050602_132857_5012" target="_blank">Paul Moves Out</a></em> (published by D+Q) for Maclean&#8217;s back in 2005.</p>
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<p><strong>Wishing I was in New York</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&#38;page=shop.browse&#38;category_id=325&#38;Itemid=62&#38;vmcchk=1&#38;Itemid=62" target="_blank">Jason</a> has a new book coming out, which I did not know and am totally jazzed to discover. <em>Low Moon </em>(Fantagraphics), it&#8217;s titled, and he&#8217;s going to be at The Strand bookstore in NYC tomorrow (June 3). I&#8217;m still looking to pick up a copy of <em>I Killed Adolph Hitler</em>.</p>
<p>Also at The Strand, Seth (!) and Adrian Tomine. They&#8217;re going to show some slides and chat with the audience. If anyone has the opportunity to attend, I&#8217;d love to hear all about it. Drop me a line or comment.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/calendar/?startweek=2#1383" target="_blank">The Strand event calendar</a> for more info.</p>
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<link>http://prosaico20mg.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/conhecer-pyongyang/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Celinho</dc:creator>
<guid>http://prosaico20mg.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/conhecer-pyongyang/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lutar 100  vezes e vencer 100 vezes. Viva o Partido dos Trabalhadores de Choson que é o respo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft" title="Pyongyang" src="http://www.guydelisle.com/pyongyang/images/py_couv_french_big.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="301" />&#8220;Lutar 100  vezes e vencer 100 vezes. Viva o Partido dos Trabalhadores de Choson que é o responsável de todas as vitórias e o guia de todo o povo de Choson&#8221;. A frase que inicia o texto é a tradução de uma inscrição que ilustra a capa de Pyongyang, um livro de história em quadrinhos do cartunista e animador canadense  Guy Delisle. Pyongyang é a minha dica de hoje, que apesar de não ser propriamente uma novidade, tem toda a atualidade, principalmente depois dos últimos acontecimentos na Coréia do Norte. Aliás, &#8220;Choson&#8221; é o nome da antiga nação formada pela Coréia do Norte e do Sul unificadas.</p>
<p>O livro é uma espécie de diário da estadia de Guy em território norte-coreano, onde o canadense foi trabalhar por dois meses como supervisor de um estúdio de animação local. O relato é sincero e usa o bom humor para conseguir entender diferenças culturais gigantescas e a dura realidade de uma ditadura de mão de ferro que há décadas controla o país. As linhas, que misturam a simplicidade e a fidelidade fotográfica, funcionam como cartas de um infiltrado, que a cada dia tenta entender mais sobre o local onde reside temporariamente. Realidade e ficção se misturam, num texto solitário, acompanhado apenas de seu fiel companheiro guia/tradutor, uma figura engraçada e triste de quem Guy tenta se desvenciliar por diversas vezes para conhecer a verdadeira Coréia do Norte.</p>
<p>Editado inclusive na Coréia do Sul, Pyongyang tem edição brasileira pela Zarabatana e conta com um extra en relação à versão francesa: duas páginas com as coordenadas geográficas dos locais citados por Guy Delisle para que o leitor possa consultar no Google Earth ou Google Maps. Uma obra fantástica, que vale a pena ler como diversão e como informação e para entender um pouco mais sobre o país que ignora o resto do mundo e que parece não precisar dele.</p>
<p><em><strong>Pyongyang &#8211; Guy Delisle</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Zarabatana Books &#8211; preço médio: 35 reais</strong></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Una mirada a la literatura norcoreana en el Crítico]]></title>
<link>http://defromistaakioto.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/una-mirada-a-la-literatura-norcoreana-en-el-critico/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pursewarden</dc:creator>
<guid>http://defromistaakioto.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/una-mirada-a-la-literatura-norcoreana-en-el-critico/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[En este artículo de el Crítico, que también publicó la revista Sinalefa, busqué la poca información ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Good Ship Comic Cast]]></title>
<link>http://thecomiccast.com/2009/05/26/the-good-ship-comic-cast/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 23:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thecomiccast</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thecomiccast.com/2009/05/26/the-good-ship-comic-cast/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ahoy Comic Casters! Climb onboard this weeks sea worthy show for reviews of Yoshihiro Tatsumi&#8217;]]></description>
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<p>Ahoy Comic Casters! Climb onboard this weeks sea worthy show for reviews of <strong>Yoshihiro Tatsumi&#8217;s A Drifting Life</strong>, <strong>Alan Moore&#8217;s </strong><span><strong>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 3: Century: 1910</strong>, <strong>Barbara Randall Kesel&#8217;s </strong><span><strong>Legends of the Dark Crystal Volume 1: The Garthim Wars</strong>, <strong>Mike Carey&#8217;s Unwritten #1</strong>, <strong>Guy Delisle&#8217;s Burma Chronicles</strong> and <strong>Joseph Larkin&#8217;s Arcade of Cruelty. </strong>Then we&#8217;ll be stearing the ship back to Ireland for some reviews of two brand new Irish comics &#8211; <strong>Gar Shanley and Salvo&#8217;s Windell Classics Compendium</strong> and <strong>Paul Maxell&#8217;s A Murdering Spree </strong>and then it&#8217;s off to Animation Island to get the low down on <strong>Coraline 3D </strong>and also Studio AKA&#8217;s adaptation of <strong>Oliver Jeffers</strong> children&#8217;s book <strong>Lost and Found</strong> on DVD. And finally we pick out the jewels of the (News) Treasure Chest to talk about the latest in casting of Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s <strong>Thor </strong>and Kevin Smith&#8217;s <strong>Green Hornet</strong> comic and we promise no more nautical references from here on in! Yar. ahem.</span></span></p>
<p><strong>Download Link:</strong> <a href="http://thecomiccast.jellycast.com/files/audio/comic_cast_260509.mp3">The Comic Cast 26/05/09</a></p>
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<p><strong>Comics reviwed in this show:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drifting-Life-Yoshihiro-Tatsumi/dp/1897299745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1243281193&#38;sr=1-1">A Drifting Life</a> (the best comic purchase you&#8217;ll make this year)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/League-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-Century-1910/dp/1603090002">Century 1910</a> (The League used from £4.02!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Dark-Crystal-Legends-Garthim/dp/1598167014/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1243281246&#38;sr=1-1">Legends of the Dark Crystal</a> (this comic is hard to track down but Amazon is your best bet)</p>
<p><a href="http://mikecarey.net/">Mike Carey&#8217;s site</a> (some interesting interviews with Mr. Carey on his site)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guydelisle.com/english/index_en.html">Guy Delisle&#8217;s Blog</a> (good knowledge of French required . . .)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Burma-Chronicles-Guy-Delisle/dp/1897299508">Burma Chronicles</a> (another solid investment)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.josephlarkin.com/">Joseph Larkin&#8217;s Site</a> (the creator of <em>Arcade of Cruelty</em>&#8217;s site &#8211; expect text)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.also-ran.com/">Also-Ran</a> (apparently you can order <em>Arcade of Cruelty</em> from this site. Maybe look harder than we did, or get it from Amazon via link below)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R2CZOIH70CEY3I/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&#38;ASIN=0615217990&#38;nodeID=283155#wasThisHelpful">Joseph&#8217;s Self-Review</a> (Larkin reviews his own book on Amazon, much to the annoyance of comics people. Man, we love this love guy!)</p>
<p><strong>Irish Comics from this show:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.windellcomics.com/">Windell Classics Compendium</a> (available in Sub City, Crow Comics, Forbidden Planet for 6 squids)</p>
<p><a href="http://salvossalvo.blogspot.com/">Salvo&#8217;s Blog </a>(artist behind Windell posts great artwork of which we particularly like the nods to old cinema)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deadend23.com/">Dead End 23</a> (the website of A Murdering Spree artist Paul Maxell)</p>
<p><strong>Film and Animation from this show:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3n67BQvh0">Coraline trailer </a>(looks better on the big screen in 3D!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOqMuOTsOc">Lost and Found trailer</a> (get the hankies out. No not for that you sicko!)</p>
<p><strong>And the rest of the show:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.backtothebay.net/multimedia/wallpaper/800_kim.jpg">Chis Hemsworth </a>(Thor relaxing on Summer Bay)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01131/arts-graphics-2008_1131246a.jpg">Tom Hiddleston</a> (Loki poses for a PR shot)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSa1FlrTINg">Wayne Allwine RIP</a> (an interview with the voice of Mickey Mouse who died this month)</p>
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<link>http://genevieveparadis.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/la-birmanie-pour-les-nuls/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 04:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[La bande dessinée Chroniques Birmanes de Guy Delisle n’est ni un guide touristique, ni un récit de v]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>La bande dessinée Chroniques Birmanes de Guy Delisle n’est ni un guide touristique, ni un récit de voyage, ni un fait vécu mais un peu des trois à la fois. Son format, un peu inhabituel pour une BD, rappelle un peu celui du guide de voyage.</p>
<p>Chroniques Birmanes c’est l’histoire de Guy Delisle, un bédéiste québécois marié à Nadège, qui travaille pour Médecins Sans Frontière. Guy part donc vivre en Birmanie pendant 14 mois. Guy Delisle, qui est aussi le personnage, nous offre l’autobiographie de son voyage dans un pays sous emprise militaire.</p>
<p>À travers cette histoire pas comme les autres, Guy Delisle nous présente les chroniques quotidiennes de sa vie là-bas. Qui ne connaît rien sur la Birmanie sera ravie d’en apprendre plus sans avoir l’impression de faire un effort ou de s’en voir imposé. Parce que le personnage de Guy est un touriste un peu crédule et nonchalant. Il nous conduit avec lui dans l’univers birman sans faire de pression.</p>
<p>Delisle présente ce pays au fils de ses petites péripéties quotidiennes. Il nous amène dans les rues de la ville, dans les campagnes les plus reculées et même dans un monastère bouddhiste. Il nous présente au « plus joli prix Nobel de la paix », à ses amis de Médecins sans frontière et il nous offre même un tour de ville de Bangkok, en Thaïlande.</p>
<p>Avec Delisle, on ne tombe pas dans le jugement de valeur ou dans l’opinion sauvage. Guy, le superhéros québécois découvre ce pays en même temps que le lecteur et justement, ne joue pas aux héros.</p>
<p>L’opinion n’est jamais énoncée, tranchée. On laisse en suspension les idées, les doutes, les sous-entendus. On assiste à certains dégâts humanitaires, aux efforts de développement, aux décisions de l’armée… Mais la décision finale appartient toujours au lecteur. Parce qu’après chaque nouvelle information, le lecteur a de l’espace pour réfléchir.</p>
<p>Mais le propos n’est pas seulement celui des mots. Delisle, par la force des images transmettent au lecteur une ambiance, un état d’esprit. Il nous transmet le rire, le doute, le questionnement et l’incrédulité de son personnage.</p>
<p>Les dessins en noir et blanc et la couverture du bouquin vert kaki nous laissent une étrange impression de conformisme, l’impression de visiter un univers triste, fade… bref un peu à l’image du  « Myanmar » actuel probablement.</p>
<p>Guy Delisle a le don du conteur. On ne peut s’empêcher, à certains moments de rire tout haut tellement certaines scènes sont drôles. Ses chroniques sont un enchevêtrement d’histoires drôles, d’éléments d’information, de faits vécus qui valent le coût.</p>
<p>Environ 30 dollars dans une librairie près de chez vous.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Burma's Mute Despair]]></title>
<link>http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/burmas-mute-despair/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jeet Heer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/burmas-mute-despair/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Literary Review of Canada gave me room to do a substantial review of Guy Delisle&#8217;s Burma C]]></description>
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<p><em>The Literary Review of Canada</em> gave me room to do a <a href="http://reviewcanada.ca/reviews/2009/05/01/distilling-mute-despair/">substantial review</a> of Guy Delisle&#8217;s <em>Burma Chronicles</em>. Click the link in the middle of the last sentence to read the review, the opening of which is excerpted below:</p>
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<p>Many travellers record their experiences with a camera. Guy Delisle relies on an older method of preserving memories. Using the digits of his hand rather than digital handheld devices, the artist keeps sketchbooks where he draws the sights he encounters in other lands. He then reworks these impressions into comic strip travelogues, currently available in three volumes each named after a foreign locale.</p>
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<p>A Quebec-born cartoonist and animator now based in France, Delisle leads a peripatetic existence for reasons of career and family. He worked for several years as a supervisor of animation with studios based in Asia. Because animation is a labour-intensive art form requiring thousands of nearly identical drawings to create even the tiniest illusion of motion, many studios outsource the drudge work to countries where artists can be paid in cents instead of dollars. This quest for cheap labour took Delisle to Shenzhen in China and to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. More recently, Delisle has journeyed to other out-of-the way places because his wife, Nadège, works as an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières.</p>
<p>In 2005, Nadège’s job took the couple to Burma, where they lived for roughly a year. While Nadège contended with the increasing rigidity of the Burmese regime, bent on preventing MSF from gaining access to politically restive areas of the country, her husband looked after their infant son, Louis. Aside from being a stay-at-home dad, Delisle did some children’s book illustrations and took a very sporadic part-time job giving lessons in cartooning. But, in general, the artist had a lot of free time to look around Burma and to fill up his sketchbook with local impressions.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Shenzhen; A travelogue from China – Guy Delisle]]></title>
<link>http://bcfreviews.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/shenzhen-a-travelogue-from-china-%e2%80%93-guy-delisle/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janeswanscott</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bcfreviews.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/shenzhen-a-travelogue-from-china-%e2%80%93-guy-delisle/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Cape, London; 2006 ISBN – 978-0-224-07991-4    The inside sleeve:    ‘Guy Delisle’s work fo]]></description>
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<p align="center">ISBN – 978-0-224-07991-4</p>
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<p><strong>The inside sleeve:  </strong></p>
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<p>‘Guy Delisle’s work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade.  His employer puts him up for months at a time in ‘cold and soulless’ hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home.  After <em>Pyongyang</em>, his book about the strange society that is North Korea, Delisle has turned his attention to Shenzhen, the cold, urban city in Southern China that is sealed off with electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country.  The result is another brilliant graphic novel – funny, scary, utterly original and illuminating.’</p>
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<p>Guy Delisle finds himself in an unusual position to spend time in a relatively unknown corner of the world; Shenzhen, a city north of Hong Kong.  He documents the three months he is there in striking sketches and many captivating insights held within the pages of <em>Shenzhen, A travelogue from China</em>.  Delisle’s easy style brings you instantly into his world; in a mere six panels and three lines of text you are transported to China, experiencing the sights and the smells as though you had been there yourself. </p>
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<p>Delisle’s time in China was not altogether happy; he went through great loneliness and times of boredom, predominately borne out of the lack of a common language with the populous.  These experiences however are still interesting to read about.  I found it quite intriguing how he chose to occupy his mind in the absence of companionship; from talking to himself to seeking company in language students who can barely put two English words together.  Not to mention how he coped with navigating basic requirements such as what to eat, without the privilege of reading the menu or talking to the waiter.  I’m not so sure how I would have survived in the same situation. </p>
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<p>On top of his personal challenges, the book offers some wonderful insights into Chinese culture.  It is the subtle differences between the people of the World that I am most interested in and he captures these beautifully.  The differences in infrastructure, freedom of movement from place to place and of day to day living are also explored.  Should I ever travel to China I now feel a little more prepared for the culture shock that awaits.  His later novel, <em>Pyongyang</em>, offers more in the way of cultural and political insight, but I personally feel that this is predominately due to the unique obscurity of North Korea.  Shenzhen is a lovely book to own, and I will dip into it often on my armchair travels.    </p>
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<p><strong>Favourite Quotes:</strong></p>
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<p>“Dog isn’t bad.  It tastes gamey, a bit like mutton.”</p>
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<p>“There are days when I don’t say a single word.”</p>
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<p>“Across the way, people slave through the night, squatting over washbasins.  Weeks later, I realise it’s the hotel laundry service.”</p>
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