What do you think?
Rate this book
From Hell: Vanuit de hel #2
Vanuit de hel - deel 2
Viiltäjä-Jackin mysteerio 90-luvun palkituimmassa sarjakuvassa.
1800-luvun lopun viktoriaaninen Lontoo elää ja hengittää, pimeillä kujilla liikkuu yläluokan dekadenssi ja tunteeton pahuus.
Sarjakuvaa kirjoittaessaan Moore on käynyt läpi satoja aihetta käsitteleviä dokumentteja. Tämäkö on lopullinen totuus Viiltäjästä?
Helvetistä valittiin mm. vuoden parhaaksi sarjakuvaksi USA:ssa vuonna 1994.
1800-luvun lopun viktoriaaninen Lontoo elää ja hengittää, pimeillä kujilla liikkuu yläluokan dekadenssi ja tunteeton pahuus.
Sarjakuvaa kirjoittaessaan Moore on käynyt läpi satoja aihetta käsitteleviä dokumentteja. Tämäkö on lopullinen totuus Viiltäjästä?
Helvetistä valittiin mm. vuoden parhaaksi sarjakuvaksi USA:ssa vuonna 1994.
208 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2010
7 people want to read
About the author
Alan Moore
1,576 books21.7k followersAlan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
April 12, 2013
In my quest to gain more traction with graphic novels, I ended up with From Hell.
A classic, I gather. And rightfully so. In that respect a tremendous amount of work went into this one.
This work provides yet another theory about who Jack the Ripper was, and why he committed those murders.
Yet another, I say... Well, libraries full of books have been written about it.
Yet, this one is not like the others. Not only on account of this being a graphic novel, and not a researched book, but also the way the story is told: partly researched, partly fictional.
It gives the reader multiple ways of reading it. You can read it as just a story -- whether or not it is fictional doesn't really matter; You can read it as a detective, snooping around in the story and the drawings for clues; Or you can read it together with the appendices and read it as a documentary.
It's multi-faceted and it really works on each level. I'm in awe for the amount of time and work this must have costed.
This second chapter of the trilogy is much better paced and makes use of the possibilities of the graphic novel much better than the first part. Now that the contextualizing is out of the way, the story visually really sets off. The chapters of the story are also longer than the chapters in the first part, which gives Moore the chance to really develop and pace his story much more organically.
I'm personally not that convinced by the psychology of the characters, but that doesn't mean Moore's interpretation of the facts isn't credible: The story doesn't motivate the actions of some of the characters, in my opinion, but the hypothesis Moore is leading us through seems certainly plausible. So I can't wait to dig into the last part of the trilogy!
A classic, I gather. And rightfully so. In that respect a tremendous amount of work went into this one.
This work provides yet another theory about who Jack the Ripper was, and why he committed those murders.
Yet another, I say... Well, libraries full of books have been written about it.
Yet, this one is not like the others. Not only on account of this being a graphic novel, and not a researched book, but also the way the story is told: partly researched, partly fictional.
It gives the reader multiple ways of reading it. You can read it as just a story -- whether or not it is fictional doesn't really matter; You can read it as a detective, snooping around in the story and the drawings for clues; Or you can read it together with the appendices and read it as a documentary.
It's multi-faceted and it really works on each level. I'm in awe for the amount of time and work this must have costed.
This second chapter of the trilogy is much better paced and makes use of the possibilities of the graphic novel much better than the first part. Now that the contextualizing is out of the way, the story visually really sets off. The chapters of the story are also longer than the chapters in the first part, which gives Moore the chance to really develop and pace his story much more organically.
I'm personally not that convinced by the psychology of the characters, but that doesn't mean Moore's interpretation of the facts isn't credible: The story doesn't motivate the actions of some of the characters, in my opinion, but the hypothesis Moore is leading us through seems certainly plausible. So I can't wait to dig into the last part of the trilogy!
Displaying 1 of 1 review