Ari Folman
Paperback | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 3.93 | 1893 Users | 196 Reviews
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| Title | : | Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story |
| Author | : | Ari Folman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | February 17th 2009 by Metropolitan Books (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. History. Nonfiction. War. Cultural. Israel |
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"Special, strange, and peculiarly potent... Extraordinary." —VarietyOne night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began to massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night or of the weeks leading up to it. Then came a friend's disturbing dream, and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: what was he doing during the hours of slaughter?
Challenging the collective amnesia of friends and fellow soldiers, Folman painfully, candidly pieces together the war and his place in it. Gradually, the blankness of his mind is filled in by scenes of combat and patrol, misery and carnage, as well as dreams and hallucinations. Soldiers are haunted by inexplicable nightmares and flashbacks - snapping, growling dogs with teeth bared and eyes glowing orange; a recurring image of three young men rising naked out of the sea to drift into the Beirut battlefield. Tanks crush cars and buildings with lethal indifference; snipers pick off men on donkeys, men in cars, men drinking coffee; a soldier waltzes through a storm of bullets; rock songs fill the air, and then yellow flares. The recollections accumulate until Ari Folman arrives at Sabra and Shatila and his investigation reaches its terrible end.
The result is a gripping reconstruction, a probing inquiry into the unreliable quality of memory, and, above all, a powerful denunciation of the senselessness of all wars. Profoundly original in form and approach, Waltz with Bashir will take its place as one of the great works of wartime testimony.
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| Original Title: | Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story |
| ISBN: | 080508892X (ISBN13: 9780805088922) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Beirut(Lebanon) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 1893 Users | 196 ReviewsColumn Containing Books Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story
This is the graphic novel based on the film with the same name, dealing with memory and its ways to deal with traumatic events.This story starts with a middle-aged man retelling a friend about a dream. In this dream, a group of dogs run through the streets looking for him, knowing they want to kill him. He connects the dogs with his own duty during his twenties as he was a member of the Israeli army.This situation triggers the question in the protagonist's mind: why does he have all his memoriesWaltz with Bashir participates in the same tradition of graphic novel as Arab of the Future and Persepolis, but unlike other memoirs set in the Middle East, Waltz with Bashir focuses on life after the war and the haunting legacy of trauma that accompanies that kind of experience. Although this graphic novel is heart-wrenching and powerful, Waltz with Bashir is more focused on theme than character. This is to say, the book provides insight into what war looks like in Lebanon rather than provide
Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman, David PolonskyEffective in exposing the real injustice of military occupation. May it provoke enough outrage for voices to cry out against the evil of militarisation.'Memory is dynamic, its alive. If some details are missing, memory fills in the holes with things that never happened.I see a blue Mercedes coming down the road and everyones firing at like crazy.Even after two years of training, theres nothing but uncontrollable dear. And then
As the current ('14) conflict rages on in Gaza, I am reminded that, in this war, there are only victims. This is also true of the Lebanon conflict of the early '80s, which is the subject of this graphic novel. Yes, there are aggressors, mostly politicians who already enjoy power, goading on the common men and women who actually fight the wars. But on the ground level, where the fighting itself is taking place, there are only victims, regardless of who "wins" the conflict. That's not to take away
I was slight disappointed that this was a book made from a movie. Somehow that made certain parts of the plot feel contrived, like they probably flowed better in that genre than as a graphic novel. The illustrations were phenomenal and engaging. I take my time with graphic novels in general, but this one really had me staring at pictures to really absorb all the detail before moving on. The story was also quite interesting. Having never been to war myself I find it fascinating to see how
"One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began to massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians."We often forget that history is the story of war told by the victors. The massacre that occured in Sabra and Shatila is not one I had even heard about until I was in college and met a classmate called Sabra. In every war and conflict, it is too easy to label one group the good
i will admit to seeing the movie of this first...but as far as i can tell the book was put together from movie material. in any case, both works are extremely potent. Ari Folman uses the comic format to deliver a digestible, intensely emotional account of his connection to the sabra and shatila massacre in 1982. the story of over a thousand Palestinian and Lebanese Muslims slaughtered by Christian Phalangists comes in steps as Folman gives us his own and fellow Isreali soldiers' recaptured
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