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«Ma ora che il sogno ha avuto fine, dimmi, cosa dovremmo fare?» L'insopprimibile fame di libertà di una donna intrappolata in una società patriarcale. Un racconto di raffinata delicatezza in un manga considerato un grande classico. L'esistenza di Chiharu, madre e moglie nel Giappone degli anni Ottanta, si svolge in un appartamento alla periferia di Tokyo, tra incombenze e piccole disavventure quotidiane: i pasti da preparare, un gatto che fugge, una vicina noiosa. Adesso che le figlie sono cresciute e il marito la tratta come poco più di una domestica, la sua vecchia speranza di trovare appagamento nella sola vita familiare si rivela una pura illusione, e a Chiharu non resta che fare ricorso alla propria intelligenza e sensibilità. Con tratti schivi e poetici Yamada Murasaki racconta la solitudine e le piccole ribellioni di una donna vittima di una società maschilista e tradizionale. Un'opera spartiacque nella storia del manga.
- ISBN: 8806261533
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 352
- Data di uscita: 20-02-2024
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Chiharu Yamakawa is a Japanese housewife in the 1980s, married to a typical salaryman with two young daughters and a cat. The strips in this collection, first published from 1981 to 1984, show an unromantic view of married life and parenthood through a realistic lens. I wanted to like Yamada Murasak Leggi tutto
Yet another Ryan Holmberg classic manga introduction to the west, Yamada Murasaki's 1981-84 serialized story of a suburban housewife raising three kids, as her husband works and stays out all night and gets drunk and insists she also take care of him when she is home. This is a valuable and very spa Leggi tutto
Real Housewives of Tokyo - 1980s edition. A lonely mother in her thirties copes with the slice of life drama of raising her two daughters and wrangling her distant husband, a salaryman with long work hours and a wandering eye. Adrift on a sea of minor day-to-day events, Chiharu Yamakawa's angst and p Leggi tutto
Once I started working, it dawned on me… I am free.
A painfully accurate and realistic portrait of marriage, motherhood and being a woman in modern society. Just like the protagonist's domestic life, this book was unfulfilling and on the drier side since it's meant to capture mundaneness of it all. Makes me not want to get married or have kids, ever. Leggi tutto
Content note for rubbing up against the constraints of being a housewife and loss of a pet. Moving onto the creative mind and skill behind this manga, I am going to be drawing heavily from the 32 page essay (with two pages of endnotes) that comes at the end of the book. I did manage to read the whole Leggi tutto
This alt manga, published in the 80s, follows a housewife raising her children, with societal norms being forefront in the depiction of home life. She is very stark in what she is content with and what she isn’t, and her observations of inequality between sexes are starkly drawn. I think it’s fairly Leggi tutto
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