But getting to it is no easy task, for either Bechdel or for the reader. She says that, “if languages could be unreliable and appearances could be deceiving, then maybe somehow by triangulating between them, you could manage to get a little closer to the truth…the space between the image and words was a powerful thing if you could figure out how to work with it.” And essentially, that is what the novel is about, Bechdel’s quest for truth. For anyone who’s read this, there are no surprises that Bechdel was the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award or that the novel was made into a hugely successful musical.īechdel has commented about the comics medium as a “triangulation” of word and image. Can a graphic novel be more expansive than a traditional novel? Is it possible for a book that probably has one word for every fifty that a conventional novel has, to be able to express more discursively than the latter? Fun Home proves that it is a possibility to be considered.Īlison Bechdel has packed themes of childhood, trauma, shame, feminism, homosexuality, representation, censorship and more in an autobiography that is only 232 pages long.
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