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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis Vol 1 & 2 are landmarks in the comic genre - it's a memoir/coming of age story, but under different circumstances.
Marjane was raised in Iran when it was being modernised: western music and clothes made an appearance and was becoming a hip and trendy place, by 1980 the revolution took place and more fundamental ideas crept in society, then the sanctions, imprisonments and so on.
Satrapi observes this change and her shock at the gruesome events that unfold in front of her. Finally her parents decide to send her to a boarding school in Zurich and part one ends there.
In the second volume of the comic, Satrapi writes about European culture and how she battled with the usual trials of adolescence and being a foreigner. Eventually she does return to Iran and finds herself battling conservative ideas with her more European ones.
Persepolis is brilliant. Satrapi's simple, yet expressive drawings convey a lot of meaning and I like her observations of the terror that is going around her, at first it is naive then as Satrapi grows older her perceptions mature as well. At times it is funny but there's tragedy as well but Satrapi holds back so that the comic does not turn into a bloodbath so what you've got is a two volume work dealing with politics, feelings and a quest for freedom.
Marjane was raised in Iran when it was being modernised: western music and clothes made an appearance and was becoming a hip and trendy place, by 1980 the revolution took place and more fundamental ideas crept in society, then the sanctions, imprisonments and so on.
Satrapi observes this change and her shock at the gruesome events that unfold in front of her. Finally her parents decide to send her to a boarding school in Zurich and part one ends there.
In the second volume of the comic, Satrapi writes about European culture and how she battled with the usual trials of adolescence and being a foreigner. Eventually she does return to Iran and finds herself battling conservative ideas with her more European ones.
Persepolis is brilliant. Satrapi's simple, yet expressive drawings convey a lot of meaning and I like her observations of the terror that is going around her, at first it is naive then as Satrapi grows older her perceptions mature as well. At times it is funny but there's tragedy as well but Satrapi holds back so that the comic does not turn into a bloodbath so what you've got is a two volume work dealing with politics, feelings and a quest for freedom.