{"id":1693,"date":"2021-11-04T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/2021\/11\/04\/trotz-allem-die-geschichte-einer-liebe\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T20:30:31","slug":"despite-everything-the-story-of-a-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalmelange.com\/en\/2021\/11\/04\/despite-everything-the-story-of-a-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Everything – The Story of a Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At first I thought I had mistakenly bought the second volume of this comic from the hand of Spanish comic artist Jordi Lafebre<\/a>, because the numbering started at chapter 20. Very quickly it turned out that the story of Malgr\u00e9 Tout<\/a> is told chronologically from the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of the protagonists Ana, a sixty-year-old mayor of a small town, and Zeno, an equally old bookseller, begins with a walk in the rain, which the two take arm in arm. In the course of the narrative, it turns out that Ana is married and has a son, while Zeno had only recently become a bookseller and had spent most of his life far from his hometown at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

More and more we learn about the two characters whose love began by a rapid turn more than 40 years earlier, and although they both went separate ways, they kept in touch and their love for each other only deepened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fascinating, besides the affectionate narration, are the drawings. I must confess that the presentation of a few pages in the French comics magazine Casemate<\/a> was enough to put this comic on my list. And it does not disappoint . Lafebre manages to capture the tenderness of the relationship, the change of characters, and the mood in his drawings and readers: Inside with it to captivate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n