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| The Complete Persepolis | 
 enlarge | Author: Marjane Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 22598
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0375714839
Dewey Decimal Number: 955.0542092
EAN: 9780375714832
ASIN: 0375714839
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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 As good as they say August 12, 2008
Currently very hyped but deservedly so. Wonderfully personal, often in touching and tragic ways. A comic without caricatures, Persepolis is, without hyperbole, a modern classic. Politically astute and subtle, noone emerges clean from the various machinations that have besieged Iran in the last decades, which is not to say that Satrapi refuses allegiances. On the contrary, the themes of political discovery and commitment that form a major subtheme only reinforce the Marxist-flavoured analyses of her father, and her implicit seconding of them. The eventual political tone is robustly anti-authoritarian - more like the Bakunin recommended to a young Sartrapi by a poser punk that she may like to think. Technically, the economies of line and shade are accomplished, as is the use of dialogue and gesture. Very much recommended. It may even be better than Maus.
Wonderful story and instructive over recent history of Iran seen through a child's eyes July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful story through pictures of Marjane's childhood. It shows Iran during the revolution and after through Marjane's eyes. I expect if you are Iranian then a lot of this recent history is known to you and perhaps Marjane's individual story may not accord with yours as one reviewer suggests), however for many of us outside of Iranian society it gives a glimpse in to the life, dreams, hopes and struggles of the people of Iran, over the last 50 years.
There is a great deal of hope in the book and Marjane doesn't shy away from the difficulties, she and her family had - but she expresses the ideas of hope and the feelings of loss and disappointment from a singularly fascinating point of view. It also makes me think, I could have done with such a formidable and gentle grandmother around, when I was growing up!
The drawings are characterful and expressive. I believe the book translates to film well and if you've only seen the film, I would recommend going back to the book as a way of absorbing the story at a slower pace.
Highly recommended.
A Joy A Total Joy July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Complete PersepolisThis is the first graphic novel I have ever read and I have to say I totally loved it. It is a wonderful account of an acient civilization and an itelligent people who had to life though pointless wars, religous nuts who I would consider to be hypocritices. The comic strip adds so much and is very humourous at times. You can not help but like the author, her parents or her grandmother. You also can not help feeling the intelligence of these people and the sadness sorounding their country. The author's journey into Europe is both sad and enlightening. This book is not one you can afford to miss.
wait its bilingual -english and french versions -both great May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
marjane ,music ,men and marijuana
the privileged child of a pro communist teheran family tells her somewhat hedonistic and always veracious adventures in the backdrop of a war and revolution,the travesty becomes reality as she proceeds to her personal predicament ,a girl's transition to a woman in the context of preserving her bosom with jasmine flowers is both poetic and filled with pathos as she is destroyed almost by, a perfunctory western culture of drug and hard metal,her contempt of religious authority is only equalled by the patronising condescension of her western peers with their pseudo intellectual gibberish and selfishness,
yet she gives a horrific account of the terrible war wrought upon a newly freed iran by the american ally saddam ,the bilateral arming of the 2 oil rich nations by west,resulting in an unforgivable massacre is described appropriately .
the political comment even goes to claim the revolution could have donned another mantle if a weak iran had not been targeted by iraq at america's behest.
the coming of age in a french viennese school is a satire on the artifice and hypocrisy of the western claims to civilization ,the racial patronising as an iranian and her sexual coming of age with european men who use her as a portal to discover their homosexuality and later to buy cannabis is dark humour but pathetically predatory .
she wins ultimately as she discovers her intuitive strength as a woman who needs a man not for security but intellectual consumption ,her sojourn to paris after her obligatory marriage in iran is a liberation not from a regime ,which are all the same in their hierarchy and machiavellian political antics,but self-discovery.
she finds liberty with her wise granny who teaches that the only ugliness in the world is a lie and it is refreshing to see her critique of the hypocrisy of the attires assigned to male and women students in tehran university.
the movie is a poetic blend of verisimilitude and monochrome images juxtaposed with colour occassionally and always spellbinding to watch .
it spares no one -the bearded iranian revolutionaries ,the hypocrisy of catholic nuns -the predatory sex drug culture of the west or the political games of the superpowers which treat people as fodder for missiles .
but its inherent strength for me lies in a honest account of a disillusioned,spirited woman who becomes content when she is true to herself, not listening to bootlegged iron maiden and guzzling home-made wine.
her pride in being iranian is the key to understanding a personal account which is neither a mockery of mullahs nor a celebration of female emancipation ,but rather a search for your own truth .
marjane means a precious gem in farsi and persepolis was the ancient persian capital torched to ashes by alexander -the metaphor for the bombing of modern iran by western bombs is complete -time comes full circle.
the movie might be black and white but the content is so rich and diverse it needs no color ,an ingenious invention for a tired medium.
i will recommend multiple viewings for this dvd in french and english both as catherine deneuve and chiara have dubbed the brilliant black and white visuals .
love to see the making of as well -and marjanes tehran home will be a great story in a special edition.
usman khawaja
 it is an amazing autobiography.... March 20, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
the book depict many aspects of social history of Iran since 30-40 years ago, however, many issues explained in the book, despite they are right, can not be generalised for whole people...and I think the readers might understand that the book is actually an autobiography...a very impressive one of course...I found it amazing ....
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