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birokurgunlugu's review against another edition
4.0
İkinci Dünya Savaşı döneminde işgal altındaki Fransa'da yaşanan bir aşk hikayesi. Hem çizimleri hem de hikayesi çok güzeldi.
rachel379's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mpr2000's review against another edition
5.0
I don’t normally read “Graphic Novels”, not because I don’t like it, but because I really don’t know where to find the good ones or to have a good variety to search on.
Horizontal Collaboration is a complex and realistic story that will stay with you for a long time; the emotional charge of the story told with some really beautiful illustrations have stolen my heart. It’s always surprising how an illustration can make you feel so many emotions and sensations without a simple word.
This is the story of some characters living on a building in Paris on 1942; how their lives are all connected. It’s curious because even if they all have their own secrets they all respect and take care of each other.
Since the beginning you suspect that this will not be a happy ending story, but after you read it, you understand that their acts are not a result of jealousy or angriness, they are a result of care and preservation. It may not seem that way when you just finish the story, but with a cold mind you can understand almost all the actions, even if the results ended dramatically bad.
This book will be on my top ten this year, I loved every page of it; I don’t want to make any spoilers or to tell too much about it. Take a chance to Horizontal Collaboration it is worth every page!
Horizontal Collaboration is a complex and realistic story that will stay with you for a long time; the emotional charge of the story told with some really beautiful illustrations have stolen my heart. It’s always surprising how an illustration can make you feel so many emotions and sensations without a simple word.
This is the story of some characters living on a building in Paris on 1942; how their lives are all connected. It’s curious because even if they all have their own secrets they all respect and take care of each other.
Since the beginning you suspect that this will not be a happy ending story, but after you read it, you understand that their acts are not a result of jealousy or angriness, they are a result of care and preservation. It may not seem that way when you just finish the story, but with a cold mind you can understand almost all the actions, even if the results ended dramatically bad.
This book will be on my top ten this year, I loved every page of it; I don’t want to make any spoilers or to tell too much about it. Take a chance to Horizontal Collaboration it is worth every page!
a_mo_zing's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
agathann's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
toofondofbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Horizontal Collaboration is a stunning graphic novel telling the story of women in World War 2. The book opens with Virginie and her grandmother Rose in the present day talking about love, and this leads to Rose reflecting back on the man she truly loved (not the man she married). We then discover the stories of three women whose lives overlap during the war, and get to understand things from each of their perspectives.
The novel is set in an apartment building and we get to see inside each of the inhabitants’ lives and how they all intertwine.
Rose is married to Raymond, who is away at war, and she is raising their young son Lucien. Over the course of the memoir we see her relationship with a German soldier, which she desperately needs to be kept secret but she has fallen in love with him and can’t stop seeing him. This is such a dangerous situation for Rose, but I couldn’t help but feel for her.
Josephine is another young woman who works at a cabaret club but is also working as an escort as its the only way she can make ends meet. I really liked her and felt so anxious that things weren’t going to work out for her. She seemed so lonely and sad, never giving her full self to anyone.
Then there is Madam Flament. She was something of an enigma to begin with. She seems to be quite scatty; she’s obsessed with her cats in the basement and seems to care more about them than the people living in her building. But there’s something that made me think she was watching and taking in everything that was happening, and this made me nervous about what this might lead to.
I will say that when I initially started reading this book I found it a little confusing as the story does jump from character to character. I soon realised that I needed to take my time with this novel and read it slowly, to properly appreciate the story being told and to enjoy the beautiful illustrations. Once I did this I became fully immersed in this book and I was captivated by what I was reading and seeing.
The illustrations throughout this novel are stunning. The colour palette is predominantly sepia toned but there is colour, and the way things like the way candles light up a room are captured so beautifully. The images capture the mood; the happy and the heartbreaking in such a way that I so many times had to pause for a few moments just to take in an image before moving on to the next part.
Camile is one of the only men in this book and I found that his story was the thread that pulled the others together. He is a kindly, older man that the other people in the building seem to gravitate towards. Camile is blind and it’s fascinating that for all the atmosphere of the time made people suspicious of each other and jump to conclusions; it is the one who is blind that really saw the full picture. He heard all the things that weren’t been said, he put the pieces together but he also keeps his counsel.
It felt to me all the way through this book that it was going to have a tragic ending. I think it’s partly the time the book is set in but also there is a feeling of pressure building inside the individual characters in this book and you can feeling it simmering but you know some part of it is going to give way. The tension is palpable at times, and I spent a lot of the time I was reading this book holding my breath.
This novel really captures the fear of living through a war, and also the way that people had to find happiness where they could and to survive however they could. I really felt that this book showed how nothing is ever black and white, and that in war there are so many more shades of grey than you could ever imagine.
Horizontal Collaborations is a beautiful novel is every way. The story is incredibly written and so moving, and the illustrations are stunning. I’d recommend this book to everyone, and if you’ve never read a graphic novel before I urge you to give this one a try. This is such a poignant book that has imprinted itself on my heart and I won’t forget it!
This review was originally posted on my blog https://rathertoofondofbooks.com
The novel is set in an apartment building and we get to see inside each of the inhabitants’ lives and how they all intertwine.
Rose is married to Raymond, who is away at war, and she is raising their young son Lucien. Over the course of the memoir we see her relationship with a German soldier, which she desperately needs to be kept secret but she has fallen in love with him and can’t stop seeing him. This is such a dangerous situation for Rose, but I couldn’t help but feel for her.
Josephine is another young woman who works at a cabaret club but is also working as an escort as its the only way she can make ends meet. I really liked her and felt so anxious that things weren’t going to work out for her. She seemed so lonely and sad, never giving her full self to anyone.
Then there is Madam Flament. She was something of an enigma to begin with. She seems to be quite scatty; she’s obsessed with her cats in the basement and seems to care more about them than the people living in her building. But there’s something that made me think she was watching and taking in everything that was happening, and this made me nervous about what this might lead to.
I will say that when I initially started reading this book I found it a little confusing as the story does jump from character to character. I soon realised that I needed to take my time with this novel and read it slowly, to properly appreciate the story being told and to enjoy the beautiful illustrations. Once I did this I became fully immersed in this book and I was captivated by what I was reading and seeing.
The illustrations throughout this novel are stunning. The colour palette is predominantly sepia toned but there is colour, and the way things like the way candles light up a room are captured so beautifully. The images capture the mood; the happy and the heartbreaking in such a way that I so many times had to pause for a few moments just to take in an image before moving on to the next part.
Camile is one of the only men in this book and I found that his story was the thread that pulled the others together. He is a kindly, older man that the other people in the building seem to gravitate towards. Camile is blind and it’s fascinating that for all the atmosphere of the time made people suspicious of each other and jump to conclusions; it is the one who is blind that really saw the full picture. He heard all the things that weren’t been said, he put the pieces together but he also keeps his counsel.
It felt to me all the way through this book that it was going to have a tragic ending. I think it’s partly the time the book is set in but also there is a feeling of pressure building inside the individual characters in this book and you can feeling it simmering but you know some part of it is going to give way. The tension is palpable at times, and I spent a lot of the time I was reading this book holding my breath.
This novel really captures the fear of living through a war, and also the way that people had to find happiness where they could and to survive however they could. I really felt that this book showed how nothing is ever black and white, and that in war there are so many more shades of grey than you could ever imagine.
Horizontal Collaborations is a beautiful novel is every way. The story is incredibly written and so moving, and the illustrations are stunning. I’d recommend this book to everyone, and if you’ve never read a graphic novel before I urge you to give this one a try. This is such a poignant book that has imprinted itself on my heart and I won’t forget it!
This review was originally posted on my blog https://rathertoofondofbooks.com
merixien's review against another edition
4.0
4,5 ⭐️
Savaşta, geride kalan kadın olmaya dair çok etkileyici bir çizgi roman. Çizimleri çok etkileyici. Ayrıca her ne kadar çeviri aşamasında “İsyan Günlerinde Aşk” adına dönüşse de hikaye özünde II. Dünya Savaşı Fransa’sında kadın olmayı pek çok cepheden veriyor. Bunu yaparken de duyguları çok güçlü bir şekilde aktarıyor. Körlüğün çok sade bir şekilde anlatılıp bu kadar derinde hissettirmesi insanı hayran bırakıyor. Hayatın gri bölgelerinde, ödenecek bedellerin hep kadınlara kaldığını bir kere daha okumanın sıkıntısına ve hikayenin sonunda kırılan kalbime rağmen çok sevdim.
Çizgi roman okumayı seviyorsanız es geçmeyin.
“Çocukluk kadar zor iyileşen bir şey daha yoktur. Neyse ki artık çocuk değilsin, hayatın sana ait Joséphine.”
“Fikirlerin için mücadele et, sırlarını da sakla. Ancak böyle hayatta kalırsın. Bir tane de kedi edin. Kediler gerçekten deli olanları uzaklaştırır.”
“Birine onu sevdiğini söyleyememeye kıyasla ölüm hiçbir şeydir.”
“- Mücadele etmekten yoruldum artık.
+ Kadınız biz, mücadele etmek için yaratıldık.
..... Madalya almasak da...”
Savaşta, geride kalan kadın olmaya dair çok etkileyici bir çizgi roman. Çizimleri çok etkileyici. Ayrıca her ne kadar çeviri aşamasında “İsyan Günlerinde Aşk” adına dönüşse de hikaye özünde II. Dünya Savaşı Fransa’sında kadın olmayı pek çok cepheden veriyor. Bunu yaparken de duyguları çok güçlü bir şekilde aktarıyor. Körlüğün çok sade bir şekilde anlatılıp bu kadar derinde hissettirmesi insanı hayran bırakıyor. Hayatın gri bölgelerinde, ödenecek bedellerin hep kadınlara kaldığını bir kere daha okumanın sıkıntısına ve hikayenin sonunda kırılan kalbime rağmen çok sevdim.
Çizgi roman okumayı seviyorsanız es geçmeyin.
“Çocukluk kadar zor iyileşen bir şey daha yoktur. Neyse ki artık çocuk değilsin, hayatın sana ait Joséphine.”
“Fikirlerin için mücadele et, sırlarını da sakla. Ancak böyle hayatta kalırsın. Bir tane de kedi edin. Kediler gerçekten deli olanları uzaklaştırır.”
“Birine onu sevdiğini söyleyememeye kıyasla ölüm hiçbir şeydir.”
“- Mücadele etmekten yoruldum artık.
+ Kadınız biz, mücadele etmek için yaratıldık.
..... Madalya almasak da...”
cocoline's review against another edition
3.0
J'ai bien aimé ce roman graphique mais j'en attendais un peu plus
J'étais curieuse de découvrir comment le sujet de la relation entre une française et un nazie pendant la seconde guerre mondiale allait être traité
J'ai cependant été un peu déçu. Même si j'ai trouvé le postulat de départ intéressant et que la BD se lit bien je suis resté sur ma faim et j'ai trouvé que ça restait plutôt en surface
J'étais curieuse de découvrir comment le sujet de la relation entre une française et un nazie pendant la seconde guerre mondiale allait être traité
J'ai cependant été un peu déçu. Même si j'ai trouvé le postulat de départ intéressant et que la BD se lit bien je suis resté sur ma faim et j'ai trouvé que ça restait plutôt en surface
thekatedit's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0