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Après avoir exploré dans Fun Home et C'est toi ma maman? les figures complexes de son père et de sa mère, c'est à la recherche d'elle même qu'Alison part avec ce nouvel ouvrage. Et où mieux se trouver que dans cette passion pour les sports violents, ineptes ou dangereux qui la pousse depuis l'enfance vers les derniers modèles de sneakers, tatamis, skis de fond, moutain bikes et autres instruments de torture? Mais plus Alison se cultive physiquement, plus sa psyché semble lui faire obstacle. C'est donc du côté des philosophies orientales et des poètes romantiques et transcendantalistes des siècles passés, de Coleridge à Jack Kerouac, que notre exploratrice traque l'illumination. En artiste virtuose et athlète qui-ne-rajeunit-pas, elle parvient à la conclusion que le secret de la force surhumaine ne réside pas dans la vie au grand air et les abdos en plaquette de chocolat, mais plutôt dans le fait d'accepter sa dépendance aux autres, cruciale à la survie mentale. Comme dans toute son oeuvre, humour, culture, introspection et profondeur de vue entrent en fusion pour faire de ce Secret de la force surhumaine une pierre de plus dans le jardin zen d'Alison Bechdel et une nouvelle pépite du roman graphique.
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DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the SENSATIONAL LONDON MUSICAL The award-winning musical adaptation that took America by storm now playing to five star reviews at the Young Vic 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this.
Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
---- 'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent 'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard
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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the same time', as Sarah Walters wrote in the Guardian. The Times said it was 'incontestibly the graphic book of the year', while the Observer recently chose it as one of the ten best graphic novels ever published.
While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homsexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.
It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to one explosively illuminating Dr Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) love life. And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
