W the Whore
$60.64
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2023
Summary
The experiences of womanhood are heightened and transformed in these eerie, fairy tale-like comics by a gifted artist-writer duo.
Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West German-born Katrin de Vries read a magazine featuring the drawings of the East German-born Anke Feuchtenberger. De Vries wrote to ask Feuchtenberger if she might want to collaborate, and together they’ve produced some of the most striking German comics of the last thirty years, most notably W the Whore
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681376721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681376725 |
| Author: | Anke Feuchtenberger, Katrin de Vries |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“The writing is minimalist and matter-of-fact, occasionally vetero-testamentary in tone… as a critique of both the eternal feminine and mainstream feminism, W the Whore stresses the importance and the value of imagination and creativity over social analysis and commentary……A translator’s note and an interview with the authors provide valuable information on the collaboration between writer and artist, the origin of the series, and its cult following. In the end, W the Whore may never find what she is looking for, but when she meets R the Reader, it is love at first sight.” —World Literature Today“Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin de Vries’s W the Whore has been collected in its entirety in English (translated from the German by Mark David Nevins) for the first time. Its heroine negotiates desire, marriage and childbirth in a stark, intimate and sometimes very funny book about life and gender roles.” —James Smart, The Guardian “Best Graphic Novels of 2023”“W the Whore is a succession of comics formed out of disconnection and rupture. Its creators came together from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall’s rubble, and the resulting nine stories concern the violent confusion enacted on women’s bodies by patriarchy, the labyrinthine structures women are placed within under patriarchy’s chilling shadow, and the mounting contradictions enacted upon women deemed to be whores.” —Helen Chazan, The Comics Journal”[P]oetic and dreamlike collection of graphic parables.” —Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Anke Feuchtenberger
Anke Feuchtenberger is a German artist. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 1997 she has held a professorship in drawing and graphic narration at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg. Feuchtenberger emerged as a comic artist and started exhibiting and publishing internationally in the 1990s. She lives in Hamburg and Vorpommern, Germany.
Katrin de Vries is a German writer. She lives with her family in Bunde, Germany.
Mark David Nevins is an occasional writer on and translator of comics. For more than two decades he has been the American Correspondent for the Swiss comics journal STRAPAZIN. His comics translations include Lone Racer, The Exlibris, Tango with Death, and The Man Who Didn’t Sweat. Professionally he advises CEOs and boards on leadership, strategy, and governance.
Madeleine Schwartz is a journalist and editor based in Paris whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.
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