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EU-Japan history via Karl Marx, the manga
On 14 March 1883, the father of socialism died. In these times of economic crisis, sales of Capital are on the increase in Europe, and Karl Marx is also going to become a comic strip. The Tokyo publisher East Press is launching a series of 28 manga versions of important European and Japanese literature. Dostoyevsky is among the bestsellers, along with Dante, Kafka and Hitler’s Mein Kampf
If you think about it, some of the titles in the catalogue seem easy enough to guess; William Shakespeare’s King Lear (1603- 1606) and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865-1869) would lend themselves pretty well to images. However, you start to get stuck when you consider that Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish master of existentialism, is also included in the series with The Sickness Unto Death (1849). A more unlikely text than this is perhaps Karl Marx’s Capital ('Das Kapital', 1867) ( .. )
de Marco Riciputi in Cafebabel.com
image: http://www.eastpress.co.jp/ via Cafebabel
Pentru cei care sunt/trec prin Londra, Kuniyoshi poate fi văzut zilnic la Royal Academy of Arts până pe 7 iunie.
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de Ioana Calen in Cotidianul
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