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Gruppa
Denne tegneserieromanen handler om en seks kvinner og menn i forskjellige aldre som er i gruppeterapi for personer med lettere sosial angst. De sliter med ensomhet, sosiale relasjoner, forhold til foreldre, ektefelle, barn. Bokens kapitler har synsvinklene til de forskjellige karakterene i gruppa. Man ser dem i gruppeterapimøtene, der de sitter i ring og snakker sammen og med terapeuten, og i situasjoner ellers i livet. Nennsomt og presist drar Anna Fiske leseren inn i boka, og viser karakterene fra forskjellige kanter. Med sin oppmerksomhet i forhold til talende situasjoner og detaljer får hun fram et rikt nett med nyanser, med innlevelse i temaets alvor og ikke minst med forsonende humor.
Anna Fiske, f. 1964, har utgitt flere barnebøker og tegneseriebøker for barn. Hun har tidligere gitt ut tre tegneseriebøker for voksne.
Anna Fiske, f. 1964, har utgitt flere barnebøker og tegneseriebøker for barn. Hun har tidligere gitt ut tre tegneseriebøker for voksne.
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First published January 1, 2014
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August 10, 2016
Dette er en tegneserieroman om seks menn og kvinner som møtes til gruppeterapi fordi de sliter med lettere sosial angst og sosiale relasjoner. Man får også innblikk i hverdagen til den enkelte. Veldig godt tegnet og skrevet som virkelig tar hverdagslivet på kornet. Både sjarmerende og trist på samme tid, og den setter tankene i gang. Likte den kjempegodt!
March 8, 2022
Denne var veldig fin! Synes kanskje den var litt kort, skulle ønske jeg ble litt bedre kjent med alle i gruppa og kanskje også psykologen? Ellers veldig fin om at alle i en terapigruppe er der av ulike grunner, men likevel har noe til felles.
June 1, 2015
Utrolig herlig og vond på samme tid. Skulle gjerne lest enda mer fra disse livene.
October 7, 2018
Eg likar bøker for vaksne som ser ut som dei er for born. Naivistiske teikningar som er veldig treffande for alle over 20.
August 17, 2019
Nydelig liten fortelling. Sier ikke så mye i ord, men får sagt masse likevel.
March 29, 2022
Likte denne godt, siden jeg selv har gått i gruppeterapi var det en del å kjenne seg igjen i.
November 15, 2014
A strange little graphic novel about a number of individuals who partake in weekly group sessions with a psychologist. The book consists of chapters with their meetings, followed by a chapter where we get to follow one of the members of the group though his or her week. This goes on until we've followed all the members of the group, and ends with a classical open ending, with them all going their, not so merry ways.
This is a rather clever set up, as we get to know these persons one after another, and can relate what they divulge in the sessions to what they are actually experiencing.
A great setup does not inevitably lead to a great book, though. There are scenes where you can feel the tension, the anxiety, as in when a daughter is visiting her old mother and acts very callous, without even noticing how she's hurting her mother. Or when a woman gets a visit over a weekend by her mother and can't seem to connect to her in any way. Despite these small, anxiety-ridden gems, I didn't fully get into all the characters, and read the book more as a kind of concept art made graphic novel.
I would probably have liked this book more if it was longer, or if it had focused more on one of the characters, and gone more into depth about his or her life. Or, come to think about it, if the theme of mother-daughter relationships had been fleshed out more, for that is very obviously where Fiske has the most to say.
The art is pure Anna Fiske. She's got her very own, nativistic though still precise style when it comes to capturing emotions through the characters faces and body language. I love the fact that she's using the exact same style for this rather heavy Woody Allenesque-drama, as she does in her children's comics.
After having finished the book, I read in an interview that Fiske has herself partaken in group sessions like these, and that the part about the visting mother was partially autobiographical. It thus makes sense that this chapter was one of the stronger, but that only makes me wish even more that this had been the theme of the whole book. A version on the same theme as Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama if you will.
This is a rather clever set up, as we get to know these persons one after another, and can relate what they divulge in the sessions to what they are actually experiencing.
A great setup does not inevitably lead to a great book, though. There are scenes where you can feel the tension, the anxiety, as in when a daughter is visiting her old mother and acts very callous, without even noticing how she's hurting her mother. Or when a woman gets a visit over a weekend by her mother and can't seem to connect to her in any way. Despite these small, anxiety-ridden gems, I didn't fully get into all the characters, and read the book more as a kind of concept art made graphic novel.
I would probably have liked this book more if it was longer, or if it had focused more on one of the characters, and gone more into depth about his or her life. Or, come to think about it, if the theme of mother-daughter relationships had been fleshed out more, for that is very obviously where Fiske has the most to say.
The art is pure Anna Fiske. She's got her very own, nativistic though still precise style when it comes to capturing emotions through the characters faces and body language. I love the fact that she's using the exact same style for this rather heavy Woody Allenesque-drama, as she does in her children's comics.
After having finished the book, I read in an interview that Fiske has herself partaken in group sessions like these, and that the part about the visting mother was partially autobiographical. It thus makes sense that this chapter was one of the stronger, but that only makes me wish even more that this had been the theme of the whole book. A version on the same theme as Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama if you will.
July 28, 2015
En litt vanskelig bok å anmelde synes jeg, men jeg prøver her: http://psyktopptatt.blogspot.no/2015/...
July 16, 2016
Anna Fiske er min helt! Tegner og skriver rett i fletta.
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