“Climb out of your damned coffin before it’s lowered into the ground.” Despite its ominous ending, which comes as the Nazi party seizes power, the novel finishes with a montage of moving images that shift from the ruins of postwar Berlin through to the present-potent reminders of the possibilities of a better future to come. “Have a damned opinion,” one character points out. This beautifully drawn narrative, published over the course of 22 years, reminds us of the dangers that arise from a complete focus on our quotidian concerns-especially when vital questions about our future are being contested. Lutes shows with great sympathy how those crosscurrents influenced history in ways that people were powerless to resist. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 1) Books by Jason Lutes Jason Lutes Average rating 3.99 16,924 ratings 1,439 reviews shelved 32,322 times Showing 30 distinct works. Set in the German capital during the last years of the Weimar Republic, it captures both the hedonistic culture of Berlin and the political crosscurrents shaping its immediate destiny. Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Books by Jason Lutes (Author of Berlin, Vol. Jason Lutes’s 22-chapter graphic novel is an epic in every sense. Illustration from ‘Berlin’ by Jason Lutes.
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