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Berlin: City of Stones Part 1 (Paperback)

by Jason Lutes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 209 pages
  • Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly; 3rd Ed edition (1 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1896597297
  • ISBN-13: 978-1896597294
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 19 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,160 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic, this graphic novel embodies the hopes and struggles of journalist Kurt Severing, art student Marthe M uller, and other inhabitants of Berlin as their future is darkened by a growing shadow.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 10 May 2005
Pure distilled Lutes. If you liked "Jar Of Fools", you'll love this volume as well.
The plot follows the lives of several individuals, normal people in abnormal times, small wishes trapped in a nation that is slowly going mad. A secluded journalist, a shy artist girl, a middle-class jewish family, a prole german family, a down-to-earth policeman, and then war veterans, art students, faction leaders, demonstrations, desperation, dreams, violence, love... they all mix up to paint a vivid landscape of the unstable Berlin between the two Wars, without ever being didascalic, always looking at the people, what they see, what they feel... and the end of the volume is just heartbreaking (if a bit predictable).

As someone who studied the Republic of Weimar quite thoroughly, I have to say that Lutes is careful with the references; but this book is mostly about the emotional portrait of a generation that didn't recognise the blowing wind of history, and was unable to put in practice the fragile equilibrium of modern democracy. Weimar will always be a memento that democracy is not just in the structures and rules of parliamentary debate, but in minds, bodies and souls of the people who compose it; and Lutes knows it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A missed opportunity, 11 Sep 2009
This book starts the series Lutes has devoted years to creating, the story of Germany between the wars. The story follows the lives of several people, a journalist riling against the rise of fascism, a young art student conflicted with her feelings of love for other women, a married woman who is thrown out of her family by her husband for her leanings toward communism, as well as others. The story shows rallies for various political parties as well as peoples' feelings for Hindenburg and of course the first showings of the fledgling Nazi party.

The drawings are beautiful with Lutes adopting Herge's line and crafting detailed panoramic views of the city as well as amazing crowd scenes and convincing period detail. There isn't a plot to the book, just a meandering toward the inevitable start of WW2.

My only criticism is that it's boring. I'm sorry if that sounds like a shallow dismissal but there's no getting around the fact that nothing much happens in the book. Mostly all you see in this book are the poverty, the disabled soldiers begging on the streets, money slowly becoming worthless. I was hoping Lutes would do something different given the material, take a different angle perhaps, but he's just retold what happened. I've studied this period of history both at A-level and university level and I'm well aware of what went on. As a comic book series it's very dry and unfortunately Lutes cannot bring out the drama of the situation to make a gripping read. Mostly it's as dull as a history lesson populated with unconvincing characters. I wanted to like it but couldn't get into it. I struggled to get to the end and won't be looking at the next in the series. There are better comics out there.
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