Vladimir Sorokin,
Many people don’tlike Sorokin, sometimes they hate him and more often than not they don’tunderstand him, mistaking the views of characters for the author’s own.
Asia and Graphic novels
Printed graphic storytelling is an extension of all that has been performed for centuries across Asia, whether translating the ancient Mahabharata from verse and stage to the illustrated page in India, Cambodia and Nepal, in China’s Shuihu Zhuan (Outlaws of the Marsh or The Water Margin) moved from verse to scrolls to comics, Osamu Tezuka’s reaction to his war experiences in the hugely popular tales of Astro Boy, or Shaun Tan’s stunning The Arrival. These are seen as being as legitimate and masterful as novels solely of the written word because in Asia, and particularly where symbols are used rather than alphabet, the image is also the word and carries perhaps more potency and power than any arrangement of letters.
Many people don’tlike Sorokin, sometimes they hate him and more often than not they don’tunderstand him, mistaking the views of characters for the author’s own.
Asia and Graphic novels
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