Dead Memory [Hardcover]

Marc-Antoine Mathieu (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2004

A haunting and powerful look at modern society and our reliance on structures - both physical and suggested - Dead Memory represents some of the best published work of one of France's most highly acclaimed graphic novelists, Marc-Antoine Mathieu. Beautifully illustrated in high-contrast black and white, and published in an oversize, hardcover format, Dead Memory is both an allegorical study of a Kafka-esque society under the control of real-time information and a thoughtful treatise on cities, walls, languages, and other elements that both define and confine humanity.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (January 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569718407
• ISBN-13: 978-1569718407
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,797,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance in Black & White, January 21, 2004

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"toastandq" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Memory (Hardcover)

This book is not so much a "graphic novel" as a brillianty drawn critique of architecture and systems of urban control. The text comments on notions of building, planning, organizations, and memory. The ludicrousness of the committees and governing bodies is particularly satisfying. I would've preferred more of a resolution to the actual events of the story, but how can one complain when the drawings themselves are so thoroughly excellent. The sequential zooming in scale, the architectural imagaination, the machine for cutting roads and the letters falling like snow, make this book a most pleasing purchase.