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The man without talent

Tsuge, Yoshiharu, 1937-2019
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Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. 'The Man Without Talent', his first book ever to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs - used camera salesman, ferryman, and stone collector - hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own.
Main title:
The man without talent / Yoshiharu Tsuge ; translated and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg.
Author:
Tsuge, Yoshiharu, 1937-, author, artistHolmberg, Ryan, translator, writer of added commentary
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Comics, [2019]©2019
Collation:
xxi, 216 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes:
Muno no hito by Yoshiharu Tsuge.Originally published: Japan : Shinchosha Publishing, 1998.Manga type book.Translated from the Japanese.Printed in reverse sequence.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781681374437 (pbk)
Dewey class:
741.5920
LC class:
PN6790.J33
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Index terms:
Biographical novel
BRN:
2656851
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