Versiones

Obras Completas Alberto Breccia #2/2

by Alberto Breccia, Juan Sasturain, Carlos Trillo

'Versiones' reúne las adaptaciones de cuentos de grandes escritores latinoamericanos realizadas entre 1975 y 1985 por Juan Sasturain, Carlos Trillo (“La gallina degollada”) y Alberto Breccia. Una obra en la que la gran literatura se convierte en historietas llenas de sensibilidad, donde el estilo de Breccia se adapta a la perfección a la atmósfera de cada relato. En 1986 la revista argentina 'Crisis' publica cinco adaptaciones de clásicos de la literatura latinoamericana realizadas por Breccia con la colaboración de Juan Sasturain. Entre los números 41 (abril de 1986) y 46 (septiembre de 1986) aparecen las adaptaciones de “Acuérdate”, de Juan Rulfo, “Antiperiplea”, de João Guimarães Rosa, “El fin”, de Jorge Luis Borges, “Semejante a la noche”, de Alejo Carpentier, y “Las mellizas”, de Juan Carlos Onetti. La adaptación de “La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar”, de Gabriel García Márquez, realizada al mismo tiempo, quedaría inédita. La presente edición recupera, además de las cinco adaptaciones publicadas en 'Crisis', el relato de García Márquez, y sustituye “Antiperiplea”, de João Guimarães Rosa, relato del que no ha sido posible obtener los derechos de reproducción, por “La gallina degollada”, de Horacio Quiroga, con guion de Carlos Trillo.

Genres: Comics

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old. After leaving school, Breccia worked in a tripe packing plant and in 1938 he got a job for the magazine El Resero, where he wrote articles and drew the covers.
He began to work professionally in 1939, when he joined the publishing house Manuel Láinez. He worked on magazines such as Tit-Bits, Rataplán and El Gorrión where he created comic strips such as Mariquita Terremoto, Kid Río Grande, El Vengador (based on a popular novel), and other adaptations.
During the 1950s he became an "honorary" member of the "Group of Venice" that consisted of expatriate Italian artists such as Hugo Pratt, Ido Pavone, Horacio Lalia, Faustinelli and Ongaro. Other honorary members were Francisco Solano López, Carlo Cruz and Arturo Perez del Castillo. With Hugo Pratt, he started the Pan-American School of Art in Buenos Aires. In 1957 he joined publisher Editorial Frontera, under the direction of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, where he created several Ernie Pike stories. In 1958 Breccia's series Sherlock Time ran in the comic magazine Hora Cero Extra, with scripts by Oesterheld.
Breccia and Oesterheld collaborated to produce one of the most important comic strips in history, Mort Cinder, in 1962. The face of the immortal Cinder is modeled after Breccia's assistant, Horacio Lalia, and the appearance of his companion, the antique dealer Ezra Winston, is actually Breccia's own. Cinder and Winston's strip began on July 26, 1962, in issue Nº 714 of Misterix magazine, and ran until 1964 .
In 1968 Breccia was joined by his son, Enrique, in a project to draw the comic biography of Che, the life of Che Guevara, again with a script provided by Oesterheld. This comic book is considered the chief cause behind Oesterheld's disappearance.
In 1969 Oesterheld rewrote the script of El Eternauta, for the Argentinian magazine Gente. Breccia drew the story with a decidedly experimental style, resorting to diverse techniques. The resulting work was anything but conventional and moving away from the commercial. Breccia refused to modify its style, which added to the tone of the script, and was much different from Francisco Solano López original.
During the seventies, Breccia makes major graphic innovations in black and white and color with series like Un tal Daneri and Chi ha paura delle fiabe?, written by Carlos Trillo. On the last one, a satire based on Brothers Grimm's tales, he plays with texture, mixing collage, acrylic and watercolor.
Other stories include: Cthulhu Mythos, Buscavidas (text by Carlos Trillo), a Historia grafica del Chile and Perramus, inspired by the work of the poet Juan Sasturain a pamphlet against the dictatorship in Argentina. Breccia died in Buenos Aires in 1993.

Reviews

[Kapitol Tank]

Versiones y reversiones de clásicos por una dupla tremenda. Tengo que ver bien qué contenía.

[Ivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mais um de adaptações do Breccia, dessa vez com contos de grandes nomes da literatura latino-americana. Os traços carregados de preto e seu estilo impressionista, sempre retratando os personagens através do grotesco ou do exagero, dão uma stmosfera de sonho/pesadelo ás histórias, complementando e expandindo os sentidos do texto. Essa combinação funcionou muito bem nos contos de Rulfo, Carpentier e Onetti, mas nem tanto no de GarcÍa Marquez.

[Fugo Feedback]

No tengo ni idea de qué contendrá este librito, pero con los autores que tiene no me extraña que lo haya puesto como "to-read". Ahora la cosa es ver si en algún momento lo consigo sin que me quieran violar en el proceso.

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Versiones personales en historieta de Sasturain y el viejo Breccia sobre cuentos de Borges, Rulfo, Carpentier, Onetti, Guimaraes Rosa y García Márquez. Parte de la Colección Monográfico, formó parte luego de reentapado "Obras completas de Alberto Breccia".

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Versiones de varios cuentos en historieta a cargo de Sasturain y el viejo Breccia.