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El arte de volar by Antonio Altarriba5/22/2023 This is an important book for Spanish graphic history and memoir, and for all comics history, evoking Maus, which is also focused on Art Spiegelman’s difficult father’s often difficult life especially in World War II, with close escapes from horrors. It's also told as if from the perspective of his father, which is an interesting move he makes in a kind of meta-fictional way: I am my father, and he is me I am now going to become my father and have him tell his tale. But it’s also a solid and engaging story by Altarriba, one with the historical scope of the twentieth century, with insights into Spanish politics and history, through the lens of an intimate portrait of his father. I speak much Spanish, to be clear I am just acknowledging that the language is often distinctively beautiful, for which I have to credit, in part, the translator. The Art of Flying is a much lauded Spanish graphic historical memoir that was published in 2009 thanks to Jonathan Cape it is now translated into English, and beautifully, by Adrian West.
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