Red Colored Elegy

By Seiichi Hayashi

Book Overview

An influential and experimental work, in an all-new paperback edition Ichiro and Sachiko are young artists, temperamental and discouraged about what life has to offer them. They fall in and out of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897299400
• ISBN13: 9781897299401
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.1" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Rewarding

When I first read it, I didn't understand anything that was going on. Is still felt like there was something wonderful in it and worth exploring. Like the first time I watched Lost Highway, there was an itching to delve into the work. Since it only took me an hour to read, I read it again. This time I started to catch on to the pacing and story of it all but there was still something I needed to figure out about it. Time for a third read. This time things unfolded more coherently. I'm not saying everything was clear to me, but I felt satisfied. It's also good to know that next time I pick up the book there will be more to explore. I get to figure out what's missing on the page and piece together the visual poetry of the work. Sometimes I want a very well structured story, other times I like to read something bewildering with lots open to interpretation and connections yet to be discovered.