Jason Lutes Ordre des livres

La saga Berlin arrive à son terme. Ce troisième opus en est la conclusion. Tandis que le journaliste Kurt Severing et l'artiste peintre Marthe Müller assistent avec effroi à la montée des extrêmes, la population berlinoise apparaît de plus en plus divisée. Désormais, le Parlement est contrôlé par le parti nazi dirigé par Adolf Hitler. Pour autant, la plupart des habitants de Berlin apparaissent indifférents à ce qui se trame autour d'eux. Les membres de la famille Braun, des ouvriers, hésitent à embrasser le parti nazi ou le parti communiste. Du côté bourgeois, la vie nocturne et intellectuelle bat son plein. Personne ne semble se rendre compte que, d'une ville de lumière, Berlin se transformera bientôt en amas de cendres.

The second installment of the epic historical trilogy   The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a fixture. The lives of the characters within Lutes’s epic weave together to create a seamless portrait of this transitory city. Marthe Muller follows her lover Kurt Severing as he interviews participants in the May Day demonstration, but she moonlights in the city’s lesbian nightlife.Severing acts as a window through which the political shifts within the city and its participants can be seen. As with Berlin Book One: City

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a glowing shadow.

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Scheming to attain a better life for his daughter Claire, a small-time con man named Nathan Lender coerces unemplyed magician Ernie Weiss into teaching her magic. Along for the ride is Al Flasso, Ernie's aging mentor, whose flight from a nursing home forces all four into living out of Narthan's car in the cavernous space beneath a freeway. As Claire's tutelage progresses and tension mounts between Nathan and Al, Ernie becomes increasingly obsessed with his brother's possible suicide. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure draws nearer by the moment bearing with it either new hope, more trouble, or both.

Uses a graphic presentation to offer a meditation on love, loss, magic, and dreams in a story featuring Ernie, an alcoholic stage magician, his former girlfriend Esther, and small time grifter Nathan Lender and his twelve-year-old daughter Claire