Shenzhen
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Primo dei reportage di cui sarebbe poi diventato maestro riconosciuto, Shenzhen è il resoconto di un viaggio fatto nel 2000 per supervisionare il lavoro di produzione di una compagnia di animazione francese in una megalopoli della Cina meridionale. Già ricchi dell'arguzia e dell'accuratezza che avrebbero reso famose opere come Pyongyang, Cronache birmane e Cronache di Gerusalemme, gli aneddoti dell'autore francese, narrati attraverso uno sguardo allo stesso tempo spietato e affettuoso, compongono qui un ritratto unico e imperdibile dall'Estremo Oriente.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Last year's Pyongyang introduced Delisle's acute voice, as he reported from North Korea with unusual insight and wit, not to mention wonderfully detailed cartooning. Shenzhen is not a follow-up so much as another installment in what one hopes is an ongoing series of travelogues by this talented artist. Here he again finds himself working on an animated movie in a Communist country, this time in Shenzhen, an isolated city in southern China. Delisle not only takes readers through his daily routine, but also explores Chinese custom and geography, eloquently explaining the cultural differences city to city, company to company and person to person. He also goes into detail about the food and entertainment of the region as well as animation in general and his own career path. All of this is the result of his intense isolation for three months in an anonymous hotel room. He has little to do but ruminate on his surroundings, and readers are the lucky beneficiaries of his loneliness. As in his earlier work, Delisle draws in a gentle cartoon style: his observations are grounded in realism, but his figures are light cartoons, giving the book, as Delisle himself remarks, a feeling of an alternative Tintin.
