Sfar is a famous French writer and illustrator, known in Italy for uncompromising saga of the Rabbi's Cat. We say that an author is smart and committed and that its production is very broad and is addressed to all ages. It's usually a story that builds a meticulously precise from the point of view of narrative design. Instead of meticulously Pascin has nothing, only the plot and the basic idea is clear.
Sfar tells a false biography of Julius Pinkas Mordekai (aka Pascin), Bulgarian painter who lived in France in the early twentieth century. History This artist is a vortex of having no moral instinct dictated by alcohol and sex. A vortex is also the way in which the author presents the story: the course does not have a defined theme and the narration is composed of short stories often disconnected from each other if not for the secondary characters that are recurring. The drawings are not those that Sfar has accustomed us: forget the colors and the refinements of the Rabbi's Cat, here is improvised in black and white and the brush is more free than ever to drag on the page sometimes very mild and in other so heavy, dirty and emerging figures are never definitive, deliberately inaccurate. Surely
Sfar wants to seize the moment of improvisation and Sometimes we can reconcile most of all the design with the rhythm of the dialogue often over the top and excessive. There are also steps when you create a certain heaviness in the atmosphere of the reading, but that's only the beginning of the work and perhaps is caused by the fact that the author himself had to take unfamiliar with this type of story. Worthy of consideration is the fact that the volume is composed of stories made in different periods and years, and this can also be seen from the slight changes of the signs from the first page.
Pascin is a story made of raw rappresetazioni fetishes and immoral, but fundamentally this is the least interesting aspect of the approach of an inspired and in some Sfar original verse, but can still improve in this area of \u200b\u200bdark-faced.
Joann Sfarr
Pascin
Paperback with flaps, p. 192. b / w
21 €
001 editions
2008
