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storia è davvero claustrofobica e io amo le storie claustrofobiche, Il protagonista, Ter, si ritrova in un appartamento, apparentemente in affitto, da cui non riesce a uscire e in cui dovrà convivere con quattro coinquilini alquanto bizzarri e "disfunzionali", per così dire.
Cercherà sia di trovare una via d'uscita, sia di ricostruire i suoi ricordi, che gli si presentano sotto forma di sogni lucidi, secondo le sue parole più reali della realtà che sta vivendo.
Anche noi lettori scopriremo la sua storia e il suo passato insieme a lui, perché il nostro punto di vista resta sempre tranne in alcune vignette singole in cui abbiamo delle panoramiche sugli ambienti quello del protagonista.
Nella seconda parte la storia del presente si fa sempre più delirante e surreale, mentre il passato di Ter diventa più chiaro almeno apparentemente, devo ancora decidere se ci sono dei punti che potrebbero non essere andati come sembra.

Qualche cenno allo stile: ho letto che è stato fatto a matita e poi colorato con Photoshop, è abbastanza volutamente sporco, infatti si vedono le linee delle matite.
I colori che dominano sono per il presente il verde "malato" che si vede anche nella copertina, e il rosa, anche quello quasi "radioattivo" e questa parola non l'ho usata a caso per i ricordi l'arancio, i toni del marrone e comunque colori più caldi.
Nel presente ci sono anche figure geometriche come spirali e labirinti, e certi ambienti contribuiscono a dare la sensazione di claustrofobia, E ci sono due pagine completamente nere, che non ti aspetti e che restituiscono bene la sensazione di "blackout" di quel momento,
Per molti versi mi ha ricordato L'uomo sulla bicicletta blu di Lars Gustafsson, anche se questo l'ho preferito perché meno confusionario e perché secondo me una storia del genere rende molto meglio come graphic novel.



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Possibili interpretazioni: quella più "letterale", come suggerisce anche il titolo, è che ci troviamo in una sorta di inferno dantesco, dove ognuno è "condannato" a ripetere le stesse azioni e i medesimi comportamenti Ter a consegnare i cioccolatini che lo hanno ucciso e poi a tornare all'appartamento, Vic a essere violento e geloso e a imprigionare Ter, Bet a essere l'oggetto del desiderio ecc.
oltre che la madre incestuosa di freudiana memoria,
Un'altra interpretazione è che si tratti di una metafora della società, con l'incomunicabilità, l'impossibilità di uscire da una realtà che si ripete sempre uguale, gli esseri umani vittime delle proprie ossessioni e dei propri schemi di comportamento, la ricerca dell'identità del passato e delle proprie origini.

Ma c'è anche una critica alla guerra l'autore è di origine israeliana ed è stato sottoposto alla leva obbligatoria, che lascia traumi difficilmente superabili un mio sospetto era che il protagonista si fosse in realtà suicidato quando parla al telefono con il padre si vede che abusa di farmaci e alcool e dove nessuno è un eroe.

Figure che mi sono piaciute, ma che non so bene come interpretare: il generale "illusionista" e usurpatore del trono di Satana la donna/fantasma che incarna sia la lussuria che la madre.

Ho trovato spiazzante e piacevolmente "pop" il riferimento alle pinup, alla pornografia di serie B e a, . . Dino de Laurentiis !
E il maialino che si chiama Beatrice, forse è un riferimento ironico e antifrastico a Dante Graficamente molto bello, a partire dalla copertina per arrivare ai disegni un po' graffiati nella loro griglia immutabile.
Ho scoperto dopo che si tratta di una storia pubblicata a puntate su internet e alla fine raccolta in volume grazie a un crowdfunding, Purtroppo l'idea di fondo è semplice e lungo il testo non si aggiunge nient'altro: è una storia ripetitiva che si trascina fino al prevedibilissimo finale, Abandon is a Hebrew term used to refer to the realm of the dead, In this story it is presented as a house in modern times, I loved the art work and the story as the main character goes on his discovery of his place and predicament, I will definitely have to check this out of my local library again as it has depth not fully fathomed byread,. Nelle recensioni vedo scomodare Sartre a me ricorda la carnosità opprimente nei fumetti di Dave Cooper sitelinkwww, davegraphics. com, che è un bel ricordo, ma che ritrovo qui in versione meno eterodossa, più incravattata, meno capace di raggiungere la cercata mimesi con la illogica del sogno e del desiderio.
La robotica traduzione italiana mette scarpe di cemento ai personaggi, A young man finds himself trapped in a bizarre apartment with a group of ill matched roommates, He quickly discovers that his new home doesn't adhere to any rational laws of nature, and poses a strange enigma, a puzzle he must solve to escape.
It's no help that both him and his roommates are missing crucial parts of their memories and identities he must try and gather the missing pieces as he struggles to find a way out.
This existential mystery, loosely based on Jean Paul Sartre's play "No Exit", lures you, the reader, into a horror house of lust, angst, and madness As you venture deeper and deeper into the darkest recess of The Abaddon, you will begin to wonder if you'll ever see the light of day again.
  The art is cool and there are some creepy characters, In the end though, most of the situations in the book fall into a pattern: growing sexual desire ending in mild violence, The characters, while being creepy at times, are a bit too flat to take the story very far, And the memories of the main character don't actually end up building to anything conclusive, In the end, entertaining but not resonant, And, oddly, the book has quite a few spelling errors, Storywise nothing really surprised me but it was strong and interesting enough to keep me going, As to the art, I wass oddly satisfied with it, I liked his style and found his images at times exceptional, Recommended for those who love new fields built on old ones and there really is nothing wrong about that, Man, I have no idea why you Goodreads people are so hostile to Koren Shadmi, This is my third tango with Koren and I think this volume was my favorite of the three! Part JACOB'S LADDER, part Sartre, part CITY OF THE LOST CHILDREN those glorious pink and green color schemes, this is an enchanting puzzle box narrative in which a man arrives at an apartment that he cannot leave, one populated by weirdos who seem inspired from noir films and various points in theth century, and goes about investigating the mysterious building of this strange trap in which you can only drink Ecto Beer and coffee and food seems congealed from a hideous pink gooey substance.
I can only assume that people objected to the "anticlimactic" ending, but it worked for me in large part because there's an interesting tension between journey and destination.
That and Shadmit's imagination is surreal and deranged in the best possible way, Yet he's being beat up here on Goodreads for reasons that completely mystify me, Because it's clear that the guy is a true original, knows genre well, and knows how to build off of this with his own odd creative efforts.
i would givestar but i feel bad bc i'm assuming the author worked hard on it lol, . . anyway this book just seemed like uhhh misogynistic lmao, also SPOILER did he like fuck his mom what is going on lol It's interesting with distinctive artwork, But it seems pretty clear from the beginning where it is going, and takes longer than it seems like it should to get there, AT a certain point I tuned out the adventures of the main character and just followed along, There were a few twists, but not much revelation, One of those stories that sticks with you after reading it, Haunting and atmospheric, The Abaddon has the dreamlike quality of the best psychological horror, At turns reminiscent of Silent Hill: The Room, and the deliriumfuelled worlds of David Lynch and Guy Maddin, The Abaddon takes a somewhat familiar plot and ends with an understated whimper that is both narratively satisfying and disturbing.
Just brilliant. Not as good as last exit, Past a certain point the novelty wears off but the art is really good and the resolution was good, I picked it up because I loved the illustration style, The premise and story were intriguing and good enough, but the execution became too sexually twisted

for me, The drawings were so nice sketch style, but there was something so unlikable and unrewarding about the characters every one of them were creepy and weird and I usually enjoy unique characters that stand out, but though the story had a cool twist I just didn't care because I hated the protagonist he seemed to not react to a lot, and just delayed and just inconsistent and creepy, some of the art style reminded me of those really creepy characters claymation from that speed demon Michael Jackson music video.
A less ambiguous "Barton Fink" drawn in a less grotesque Dave Cooper style, Una narrazione circolare in cui il protagonista continua ad inciampare in personaggi strambi e finestre murate,

Ter si ritrova a visitare un appartamento da dividere con alcuni coinquilini, ma presto si accorge che il lotto è abitato da personalità sopra le righe, ciascuna con unossessione in comune: il sesso.


Abaddon è un graphic novel spinoso come una trappola, ricco di enigmi, stranezze e angosce,

Nonostante il protagonista cerchi una qualsiasi via duscita, si sente allo stesso tempo aiutato e schiavo di questa Open House particolare,

I disegni hanno tinte fredde blu, verdi, anguria tanto da sembrare plastici: sculture di didò malleabili che un po ricordano la mollezza degli orologi daliniani: sinuosi eppure molto statici.
Colori più caldi sulle tinte del marrone inscenano invece i ricordi del passato, frammenti di vita che illuminano e contemporaneamente incupiscono il tessuto narrativo,

La definirei una lettura Weird molto accattivante e particolare! First, I want to say that Koren Shadmi is a versatile artist, but one who seems to gravitate towards a kind of mirroring and balance between internal and external experience.
Or perhaps it is more of a wrestling match, A struggle. His individual images seen in his site's editorial works sitelink korenshadmi. com/works/edit have a kind of balanced unbalancing quality, They are a bit aggressive in their insistence on looking into, through, and past things all at once, They seem to want to pull you toward falling into existential questioning or dismay, Every image has meaning and menace, and transforms itself over time into a kind of surreal and labyrinthian wake up call, Wake up, and find out you are dreaming, And dream until you realize this nightmare is your life, But no, your life is only dreaming itself into, . . What parts of "you" and "not you" are legible

But here I am, getting ahead of myself and falling behind, entering into the graphic novel without meaning to.
I see now how my reading of Abaddon is influencing my reading of these editorial images, and how my reading of the editorial images will influence my review of Abbadon.


Shadmi is a moral and existential philosopher of sorts, Of Sartres He writes Abaddona Hebrew word for angel of death or something along the lines of a hellish afterlifeas a retelling of or reflection upon Sartre's No Exit.
Like No Exit, the afterlife exists in a sort of mundane, domestic, interior space, and its hellishness comes from not from its apparent horror on first witnessing it, but its claustrophobic confusion, the trappedness, loss of memory of self one experiences there, which initiates a desperate grasping for orientation within selfhood and beyond.
Abaddon, in Shadmi's novel, is an EschermeetsDaliwell, there is a kind of melting that goes along with the mazingesque apartment building whose disturbing repetitions echo with hollowness and whose rules are impossible to grasp.
Everything is always slipping away, Memory, understanding, meaning, relationship, relief, I suppose it's a bit Sartre meets Kafka meets Escher meets Dali in a dark alley of the mind,

There is something about this book that feels both unstarted and unfinished, And I think this is the author bringing his readers into the feeling of an endless day in a place with no beginning or end and no internal logic.
A place in which every answer to a question always leads back to the question itself, One spins in circles. The dizziness may or may not be instructive, The protagonist's history before, mmmm, graduating into the afterlife, his horrorfilled memories of fighting and war, are, in themselves, a hell, and how and where and why this hell of memory meets and intertwines with the hell of Abaddon is mysterious enough to be frustrating, but also seems to want to instruct by being unreachable.
What do our lives matter after we're dead How is our suffering meaningful during life and is it and if so how is it meaningful beyond the scope of our short lives Are life and afterlife tangled up and almost simultaneous for people who have been through the most extreme horrors of war What does it mean to live a lie and to live knowing it is that lie that is destroying you and also that is keeping you alive What of our own fictions do we force ourselves to believe, or at least live by And how are other people's traumas and injuries influencing the representations they uphold to describe their predicaments and their lives Can we trust each other's stories

These are all questions and themes that emerge and then go undercover again in this painful, at times funny think of a touch of Seinfeld mixed into Kafka's The Trial if it had taken place in a Brooklyn apartment building and if Josef K were a veteran of war, and perhaps necessarily frustrating book.
The art is atmospheric and intense but with a sweetness that adds to the tension between the mundane and the horrorfilled, The color scheme is washed in a lot of greenish blue and orange pink, The question of solidity and realness is constantly on the surface with the strange and humorous food and drink stuff, Who are all these people and how did they get here and how and why did they end up together Was it simply by coincidence of being at the same place at the same time place and time being relative, or is there some deeper meaning to the peculiar convergences

You will not leave this book with an armful of answers, but I think the art and the atmosphere are worth exploring.
I can't say I quite enjoyed this book, or that it is exactly original, but I admire the immersive anxiety and playfulness and willingness to move away from some of the ways conventional narrative can exploit trauma and try to churn it into sugarcoated, easily consumable meaning.
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