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A review by heavensnights
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
First off, this should be required reading in schools like maus.
I love how you see that this is written from a perspective from a child. Not always but most of the time. She revolts, she fights, she cares for things. Children do these things but then she still repeats sentences like „he’s good he killed communist“ after saying Marx looks like god and question social classes. There is a lot of Marxism in here actually, if you know how to look for it and the thesis that where is fascism is capitalism. But that’s interpretation more than a review so let’s stop there.
The whole book is so rare truth… like unpolished truth. Which makes the whole thing such a bitter bit kind of sad and educational experience of a childhood between a revolution, war and torture and the final act of growing up while coping with all of this.
The more descend into the story, the more the main character matures… the more it hurts you realise…there is no place for living heroes in real war and we can’t be human like this.
I love how you see that this is written from a perspective from a child. Not always but most of the time. She revolts, she fights, she cares for things. Children do these things but then she still repeats sentences like „he’s good he killed communist“ after saying Marx looks like god and question social classes. There is a lot of Marxism in here actually, if you know how to look for it and the thesis that where is fascism is capitalism. But that’s interpretation more than a review so let’s stop there.
The whole book is so rare truth… like unpolished truth. Which makes the whole thing such a bitter bit kind of sad and educational experience of a childhood between a revolution, war and torture and the final act of growing up while coping with all of this.
The more descend into the story, the more the main character matures… the more it hurts you realise…there is no place for living heroes in real war and we can’t be human like this.