Tiziana Lo Porto Livres

Ballerina, pittrice e scrittrice, Zelda Sayre (1900-1948), moglie dello scrittore Francis Scott Fitzgerald, ha incarnato più di ogni altra sua contemporanea il prototipo della "maschietta", creando un modello di femminilità alternativa e ribelle che è sopravvissuto ben oltre gli Anni Ruggenti - grazie anche alle opere del marito, che a lei si è ispirato nel costruire le eroine più riuscite dei suoi romanzi. Questo graphic novel ne racconta le vicende, dall'infanzia in Alabama, passando per l'incontro con Scott, il matrimonio e la scandalosa luna di miele a New York, e poi i viaggi in Europa e in Africa, le frequentazioni con Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, John Dos Passos e molti altri protagonisti della scena intellettuale e artistica dell'epoca, fino alla malattia, il ricovero per schizofrenia e il drammatico epilogo. Sceneggiato a partire dai romanzi del marito, e disegnato utilizzando l'iconografìa dell'epoca e le foto di famiglia di casa Fitzgerald, Superzelda è il ritratto a fumetti della coppia più spericolata e romantica di quella che Gertrude Stein definì "generazione perduta".

Love was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead. Oh, don't laugh at me for this, for being a woman who says this to you. I hear myself speak.Even now, even after all that took place between us, I can still feel how moved I am by him. Ciaran was that downy, darkening blond of a baby just leaving its infancy. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. None of it mattered in the end; what he looked like, who he was, the things he would do to me. To make a beautiful man love and live with me had seemed - obviously, intuitively - the entire point of life. My need was greater than reality, stronger than the truth, more savage than either of us would eventually bear. How could it be true that a woman like me could need a man's love to feel like a person, to feel that I was worthy of life? And what would happen when I finally wore him down and took it?

For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.

" À trente-cinq ans il fut temps que je sois un homme. Les hommes avaient des voitures, ils y transportaient des gens et des choses pour vivre. Les hommes avaient des enfants qui s'appelaient Léo. Une fois j'en avais entendu un demander comment volent les avions, le père avait dit avec des ailes. L'enfant s'en était contenté, le père n'avait pas besoin d'en dire plus pour asseoir sa légitimité, c'était un homme. " Ce roman à épisodes brouille les pistes de l'existence de Jules, amateur de conquêtes improbables et célibataire intermittent. De malentendus jouissifs en gags à répétition, l'auteur tient la chronique de ses aventures et fiascos parmi une dizaine de trentenaires des deux sexes. À moins que ce jeu de rôles n'implose pour s'ouvrir à une fantaisie sentimentale, assumée dans toute sa douceur.