PublishedNew York Review Books, February 1510 |
ISBN9781590173237 |
Format, 224 pages |
Dimensions20.3cm × 12.9cm × 1.3cm |
A pioneering graphic novel that relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of modern Milan by a luminary of the mid-twentieth-century Italian literary avant-garde
A New York Review Books Original
There's a certain street-via Saterna-in the middle of Milan that just doesn't show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it's there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, "like a spirit," through a little door in the high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way. Where has Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders of life and death to find out.
Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip-a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s-is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde.
