Park bench -

Christophe Chabouté

Gallery 13

2017

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781501154027

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench.

From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people.

Christophe Chabouté’s mastery of the visual medium turns this simple object into a thought-provoking and gorgeously wrought meditation on time, desire, and the life of communities all across the planet. This could be a bench in my hometown or yours—the people in this little drama are very much those we already recognize.

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Chabouté nessa maravilhosa grafic novel, escreve através de seus desenhos. Ele conta a história de toda uma comunidade através de seus traços em preto e branco. E consegue, através do ponto de vista de um banco de praça, transmitir toda a alma de um bairro e de seus habitantes.
Os desenhos são vivos e transbordam  emoções. O pedaço de madeira e aço também é um pedaço da história de vida das pessoas.
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