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The man Without Talent

Tsuge, Yoshiharu, 1937- Graphic Novel - 2019 Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography / Tsuge, Yoshiharu 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left.
"For The Man Without Talent, in keeping with the original Japanese orientation, beign at the other side of this book and read from right to left."
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector--hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from the translator Ryan Holmberg which discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature."--Publisher's website.

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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 216 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 22cm
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1681374439
9781681374437

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Holmberg, Ryan.

SUBJECTS
Occupations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Career changes -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc -- Japan -- Translations into English.
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comics.
Graphic novels.