"A watershed achievement- Berlin charted new territory for the graphic novel and comics at the same time, at once a story about artists trying to make art during the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and a bildungsroman of the first order. "With its rich sense of time and place, nuanced portrayal of individual destinies, precisely rendered imagery, and poetic expression of themes, Jason Lutes's Berlin is truly a masterful narrative."- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes' masterful hand. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.īerlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens-Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. an ending so electrifying that I gasped.- New York Times Book Reviewĭuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age.
The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space. Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more!
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