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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5944
EAN: 9780375714689
ISBN: 0375714685
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 04, 2006
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: July 04, 2006
Sales Rank: 21596
Studio: Pantheon
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Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work.
David B. was born Pierre-François Beauchard in a small town near Orléans, France. He spent an idyllic early childhood playing with the neighborhood kids and, along with his older brother, Jean-Christophe, ganging up on his little sister, Florence. But their lives changed abruptly when Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes. But every new cure ended in disappointment as Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse.
Angry at his brother for abandoning him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, Pierre-François learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a fascinating window into his interior life. An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, Epileptic is also a moving depiction of one family’s intricate history. Through flashbacks, we are introduced to the stories of Pierre-François’s grandparents and we relive his grandfathers’ experiences in both World Wars. We follow Pierre-François through his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, all the while charting his complicated relationship with his brother and Jean-Christophe”s losing battle with epilepsy. Illustrated with beautiful and striking black-and-white images, Epileptic is as astonishing, intimate, and heartbreaking as the best literary memoir.
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I have epilepsy myself. This book wasn't all about epilepsy but I really enjoyed the straight-up honesty of it. I didn't relate to all of it especially because it's from the perspective of a brother of someone with epilepsy but it was such awesome art and a really great story. Furthermore I could relate to quite a few things, I could hear some of myself in his descriptions of his brother, I could FEEL what he was going through. And I saw some of my family and what they're feeling in his descriptions ... Read More
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This autobiography story caught me from it's first page. The hypnotic drawings, full of ink, shadows, and so colorful although painted black & white only.
The story tells the tales of what appears to be at first as normal family with epileptic kid. Soon, the seizures take the family into a voyage of great suffer but full of hope, while effecting and deforming the kids souls and life path. The parents, both kind of New-Age bourgeois type, trying to find a cure for their son, while visiting all kinds ... Read More
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I purchased this book because I suffer from epilepsy. This book is authentic and I recommend it to all, epileptic or not. Filled with family trials and very skilled illistrations.
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This book blows me away and I don't usually read this artform. But the book got great reviews, and has only recently been translated into English (from French). It's original. It's unscathingly truthful. I hope David B. gets the recognition he deserves.
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None of the individuals portrayed in this story emerge intact, including the author David B. I was left with the impression that either David B. is so fully aware of this that he purposely (and perhaps brilliantly) avoided communicating how messed up everyone in his family is, or that they are so messed up that he has no idea how messed up they are. Clearly he is angry at his family for spending his entire childhood revolving around his brother and his illness, but that's perfectly normal for someone who ... Read More
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