The Complete Persepolis
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The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Biography & Memoir
James Mustich
Jul 31, 2018
Satrapi’s Persepolis, originally published in two volumes, is a memoir in pictures, a comic book that details its author’s coming-of-age during the Islamic Revolution. Beginning in 1980, when Marjane is ten years old, the narrative reflects—in the developing sophistication of its language and sensibility—its protagonist’s passage from simple family loyalties and cultural allegiance through the uncertainties of adolescence, when she is sent to study in Vienna, to her return to Tehran for university, marriage, and ultimate emigration to France. Her flat and deceptively simple art parses her experience panel by panel with enriching perspectives; her visual compositions are as adept at representing millennia of despotic history in a single frame as they are at illustrating her flirtation with conformity and rebellion in the face of political upheaval, fundamentalist oppression, and shatteringly violent war with Iraq.
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