I make a joke, and it turns out somebody’s actually done it.
Self Made Hero has made a graphic adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Written by David Zane Mairowitz with art by Alain Korkos, it actually looks pretty cool.
The sample art on the page is black and white, simple, angular characters, and with what appears to be third-person narration, which I’d think is necessary for this particular work.
C&P is full of interior monologue, guilt-ridden soliloquies and philosophical treatises masked as dialogue, so I wonder how well it translated to visuals, but I’m intrigued by it. Right now I’m post-holiday broke, though, so unless someone wants to send me a copy, it’ll have to wait.
Anyone read it?
(h/t Kieron Gillen)
December 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I don’t know what it is about that book but I can’t stand it. Maybe it lost something in translation from Russian to English or its I just don’t get Russian culture. Who knows.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Just read it… a masterpiece!
October 18th, 2009 at 5:24 am
I’ve seen several pages. It’s quite funny for me… The original story was published in 1866 but in this graphic novel all looks like it’s 1980-1990s: PLASTIC bottles, punk, modern cars… especially a hamburger from McDonald’s on the page 9. The only merit of this novel is that the city resembles St-Petersburg even for me who lives there.