Paradise Lost
Published on 7. July 2016
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-910702-23-9 (ISBN)
Description
Paradise Lost, Milton's epic poem, charts humanity's fall from grace and the origin of the struggle between God and Satan, good and evil, life and death. In the aftermath of the Angels' devastating defeat in the war for Heaven, Satan determines to seek his revenge. Meanwhile, Adam and Eve have newly awakened in the Garden of Eden ...
First published nearly 350 years ago, Paradise Lost has now been reimagined by the Spanish artist Pablo Auladell. His astonishing artwork portrays the complexity and tragedy of one of the great stories of all time. His bleak and surprising imagery captures the lyricism of Milton's original for a new audience, and is a masterful tribute to a literary classic.
First published nearly 350 years ago, Paradise Lost has now been reimagined by the Spanish artist Pablo Auladell. His astonishing artwork portrays the complexity and tragedy of one of the great stories of all time. His bleak and surprising imagery captures the lyricism of Milton's original for a new audience, and is a masterful tribute to a literary classic.
Reviews / Votes
[It is] truly stunning... Scenes in the first canto which recount Satan's fall without putting a single word on the page are achingly beautiful... As well as being a brilliant introduction to a classic text it can also be a deft reminder of Milton's original majesty and a perfect accompaniment to its counterpart. -- Fran Slater * Bookmunch * [Auladell] adds vigour to a tale that can feel remote, and underlines the rich strangeness of a myth that is grand, cruel and beset by contradiction. -- James Smart * Guardian * Auladell combats this natural tendency of the eye by preserving Milton's poetic language. I often found myself reading and re-reading the same sentence three to four times in order to fully extract meaning out of every word. This slowing down allowed me to take in the artwork in a way no other comic book has ever accomplished. * Quietus * This is a thoughtful and brilliantly strange way to rethink a classic. -- Tim Martin * Sunday Telegraph * Pablo Auladell's art is a stunning piece of work which captures and reinterprets Milton's original.... Deeply thoughtful, eerily beautiful and quite astonishingly atmospheric. -- David V Barrett * Fortean Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
991 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910702-23-9 (9781910702239)
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Pablo Auladell is an artist from Alicante, Spain. He was the runner-up for the 2005 Illustrated Book for Children Award and won the Best New Talented Author Award in the Salo del Comic de Barcelona 2006 for the graphic novel La Tour Blanche. He teaches illustration at the University of Macerata, Italy.