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The mythology might be different, but I feel like we‘re currently looking at a similar mess playing out in the US. Wish I could shake the feeling that we‘re building up inexorably to a national disaster.
Krimstein‘s very, very good, and if not for the current resonances, I‘d be enjoying this a lot more.
Definitely worth a read.

Finished two books this week, and continuing May's #naturalitsy read

I had never heard of Hannah Arendt, first female full professor at Princeton, before reading this graphic biography. I‘m glad she made her three escapes so she could share her thinking-through with the world. Her philosophy makes a lot of sense.

I was reading this in a bookshop, and had to put it down to catch a train.
Before I finished it.
Sadness.

It seems there‘s an accidental theme in my latest library holds! I‘m very much looking forward to both of these. See @Lindy ‘s posts if the tagged book intrigues you. 😊

A deeply moving biography of Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, born in Prussia in 1906. She promoted the idea of pluralism; that there is no single truth. Cartoonist creator Ken Krimstein dresses Arendt in green, the colour of renewal, throughout this nonfiction #graphicnovel. Text-heavy pages, with lots of explanatory footnotes, are enlivened with expressive art. Arendt‘s belief that life is a glorious mess is personified in her scribbled hair.

I do not belong to the circle of philosophers. My profession, if one can speak of it at all, is political theory. -Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt‘s response to the interviewer‘s question about her book fitting into no mould: “Precisely.”

Before totalitarian leaders can fit reality to their lies, their message is an unrelenting contempt for facts.
-Hannah Arendt

Good graphic novel.

This is one of best graphic novels I‘ve read in a long time.