Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes' masterful hand. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens-Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. an ending so electrifying that I gasped.- New York Times Book Review During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully executed"-Back cover.īest of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more! The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space. During the Weimar Republic, Berlin was the progressive center of Europe, where creativity, political thought, and sexual liberty burned bright before being snuffed out under the boot heel of fascism. The city of Berlin itself comes alive, with its smoke-filled salons, crumbling sidewalks, bustling train sations, and raucous nightclubs. Their lives intersect at the crossroads of kindness and crulty, love and hate, sex and death.
Jason Lutes creates an intricate look at the German metropolis during the Jazz Age, seen through the eyes of its residents. About the Book "Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.
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