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Title	:	Asterios Polyp
Author	:	David Mazzucchelli
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	July 7th 2009 by Pantheon
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Comic Book. Art. Bande Dessinée

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli

Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 23653 Users | 1528 Reviews

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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception. Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

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Original Title:	Asterios Polyp
ISBN:	0307377326 (ISBN13: 9780307377326)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Asterios Polyp, Hana Sonnenschein, Stiff Major, Ursula Major, Willy Ilium
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Original Work & Best Letterer (for David Mazzucchelli) (2010), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2009), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–New (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novel (2009)

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Pseudo-intellectual, middlebrow regurgitation of ostensibly interesting Wikipedia-culled dichotomies and philosophical conceptions, clunkily arranged into a narrative. I mean, I do not understand how this book received the praise it did. Bad, bad writing. One dimensional characterizations. I'm not sure what age group it was written for, surely not adults? It reminded me of Paul Krugman's sick burn, "Newt Gingrich is a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like."

I so wish more graphic novelists did what Mazzucchelli did in this one. Rather than merely have the graphic element supplement the story, Asterios Polyp makes graphics a part of the theme, using it to highlight conflicts and characterize its protagonists.Asterios Polyp is a critically respected and self-regarding "theoretical architect," meaning that he has created some prize-winning designs and plans--none of which has ever been built. The narrative structure is framed by the new more humble

I don't really understand the hype over this graphic novel. I thought it was boring - an educated, middle-aged white man feels like his life has fallen apart so he jumps ship and tries to start over again. Maybe I just found his self-absorbed personality too off-putting, but I didn't really feel any sympathy for him or care about his ideas about how the world works. In spite of the sadness in it, it all reads like an educated, middle-aged white man's fantasy: Asterios Polyp is world-renowned in

David Mazzucchellis Asterios Polyp is quite a thing. A book that uses formalism in a way that is pleasing to the eye, buoyed by a story and characters pleasing to the mind (though I guess the art pleases both). Mazzucchelli has populated this book with a varied cast: narcissistic (and often insufferable) egomaniacs; a neglected beauty taken mostly for granted; a plain, hard-workin mechanic who drops many a Norm Crosbyesque malopropism and many more. The art is an impressive mélange of

Really beautiful, smart and heart-touching story of an architecture professor who, when he is 50, learns better. It ought to be a five star review, but I kept feeling like the moment the whole thing came together it would be one of the best graphic novels anyone had ever done and one of the finest stories ever told... and it reached the end and left me feeling that had it all come together - perhaps had it been much longer - it would have been amazing, and as it was it was simply astonishingly

A lavish, heartfelt story of a shallow intellectual's spiritual crisis and reconciliation with his lost love. Some of the existentialism feels a bit meh, but the synthesis of the ideas and the art - for e.g. as everyone's world view is different, each character is drawn in unique style - makes this stand out as a graphic novel worthy of the title, curiously powerful and immersive.

Wow. Just finished in one reading session this magical work of art. Together with "Daytripper", this is my all time favorite graphic novel. I don't have much to say about it, as I don't think I have rationalized it much yet: visually, it's extremely creative and exciting. Rich with inventions and ideas. The story reminded me of a Chinese saying: "Two thirds of what we see is behind our eyes", and a lot of this novel is about that crucial aspect of human existence. I see this as a love story, and