It’s possible to feel the agony, the rage that would lead a man to abandon the morals and principles held his entire life. It sounds a bit like an old melodrama, and all of the stories in the collection have that feel as well, but this story in particular is raw and emotional. He shaves off his beard and abandons his life and his principles and scholarship, devoting the rest of his life to making money. Since God has broken their agreement, Hersh decides he doesn’t need to keep his end either. When she passes, he is not simply angry at the world, he is angry at God, who he accuses of breaking their contract. "A Contract with God" consists of four stories, the title tale telling the story of Frimme Hersh, whose adopted daughter Rachele has died. As a result, his characters were more theatrical, which fit with the more emotional and raw look and feel that he sought to imbue in the pages. He seemed to treat the page, or the panels on it, like the proscenium arch of a theater. Where his earlier work borrowed a lot of language and design from cinema, here Eisner wanted the art to look rougher, forgoing color and focusing on inked pages. The book looked different from the work people were used to from Eisner's Spirit.
It was a portrait of a time and place that was long gone when Eisner made it, but it remains a beautiful sad work that will stay with you. These are stories about disappointment and heartbreak, stories that treat New York City, and a tenement building in the Bronx, like the greatest stage in the world. In some ways, it seems like such a small book to launch a revolution, but the 1978 graphic novel retains its power years later.
Will Eisner's A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories "A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories"
0 kommentar(er)
