Nicolas Mahler Livres

Cet album autobiographique développe avec humour et amertume la question du statut de l'auteur de bandes dessinées par rapport au monde de l'art. Malher a pour principal ennemi Madame Goldgruber, inspectrice des impôts dont dépend son abattement fiscal. Encore faut-il qu'il réussisse à lui prouver que ce qu'il fait, c'est de l'art

Nicolas Mahler poursuit ses adaptations en bande dessinée des oeuvres du patrimoine littéraire européen. Dans Alice dans le Sussex, il célèbre Lewis Carrol et H. C. Artmann (Frankenstein in Sussex, jamais traduit en français), mais aussi Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Cioran... Alice suit encore le lapin blanc qui plonge cette fois-ci dans une cheminée au ras du sol dans laquelle personne ne saute jamais. Il l'entraîne dans sa nouvelle maison sous terre, à la recherche d'une édition illustrée de Frankenstein dans le Sussex. Un voyage labyrinthique dans la " somptueuse maison dans le meilleur des mondes possibles ", où Alice rencontre la Chenille, le Chat de Cheschire, le Chapelier fou et Frankenstein... " Pensez-vous vraiment que la créature de mon imagination veuille du mal à celle de Monsieur Carroll ? " Nicolas Mahler nous offre un collage subtil et bondissant, un condensé de textes classiques où l'économie de moyen, la ligne épurée et l'humour rencontre la mélancolie subtile, la poésie et d'autodérision.

Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form--and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about--let alone behold.

A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler’s distinctive graphic novel style.   Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, the most important novel of modernity, is a defining book of the twentieth century. Joyce’s creation—also spectacularly innovative in form—inspired Nicolas Mahler to attempt a literary retelling that is not a mere illustration or adaption of the novel but an independent and equally as inventive work. Using comics, Mahler transforms the various literary techniques of the original. He assembles his images with humorous and philosophical verve, quoting and rambling along in the spirit of Joyce.   With this graphic interpretation of the modern classic, which also constitutes a homage to the golden era of the newspaper comic strip, Ulysses can be newly discovered in a delightfully unexpected form.

A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature--if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comic is not a retelling of this classic, nor a shortened version of Proust's monumental work. Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically disrespectful of the celebrated work yet completely permeated by Proustian spirit. Complemented by his clear and sparse illustrations, Mahler's minimal nature of text use is easy on the eye, even for those uninitiated into graphic novels. For long-time fans of graphic novels, it a perfect entry into a beloved literary classic. A compact picture stream through time and space, Mahler's In Search of Lost Time is a brilliantly complex house of mirrors replete with Proustian motives and perceptions.

Sardonic take on superheroes, their fans and the businessmen behind them. Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman's powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener prove less than adequate to deal with the ever-sinister threat of insane plastic surgeon villain Gender-Bender, or for that matter the fickleness of fashion, a disastrous movie adaptation and a desperate 'Reboot' attempt by Korporte. A brilliant satire.

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s death This bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style and minimalist illustrations. Full of fascinating details and witty, absurdist illustrations, it’s a delightful tribute to one of the world’s great writers. Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: at one time, he even said it satisfied him more than anything else. In this graphic biography, acclaimed artist Nicolas Mahler echoes Kafka’s own minimalist drawing style in a unique and surprising approach to the great writer’s life and work. Drawing extensively on Kafka’s fiction, letters, and diaries, Completely Kafka illustrates the major and minor details that formed his life, from struggles with self-doubt and writer’s block to a failed plan for a series of cheap travel guides.