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Average Rating:  out of 2 Reviews
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Drawn and Quarterly
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EAN (European Article Number): 9781896597959
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Julie Doucet
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Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791.5971
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Publication Date: 2006-06-13
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: “One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists.” —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.
My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet ’s most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet’s nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Detached. |
Date: 2006-08-14 |
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Details: Julie Doucet, My Most Secret Desire (Drawn and Quarterly, 2004)
I might have appreciated this book more had I known its contents beforehand. Not the explicit, disturbing nature of them (come on, my movie collection includes most of the Guinea Pig films AND the first two Men Behind the Sun films), but the disconnectedness (this is a dream journal, not a graphic novel) and fragmented language. The disconnectedness is an easy enough thing to which to adapt, though the pieces here are, well, dreams, and therefore often have no traditional structure whatsoever. The consistent misuse of English, however, is absolutely maddening. If your English isn't all that great, not a problem: work with a translator. There are a lot of wonderful translators out there.
Amusing at times, but be warned. ** ½ |
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Review Summary: My Most Secret Desire: Lush Dreams Rendered in Art |
Date: 2001-07-01 |
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Details: If you were to buy only one comic novella (but who could stop at one?), it should be Julie Doucet's My Most Secret Desire. Culled from both her memories of annihilating dreams and her fabulous comic series, Dirty Plotte, My Most Secret Desire brazenly introduces the reader into Doucet's world of oddball lovers and eccentric friends. Most importantly she unflinchingly bares all (literally and figuratively) as she recounts dreams which careen among the funny (masturbating with baked goods in outer space); the eerie (vomiting until her teeth fall out, being coerced into performing, um, services on a skeletal man's croissant); and the cute (giving birth to kitten after kitten). Awakening to the reality of her apartment offers no solace as mundane household objects such as menacingly sharp pencils, butter knives, push pins, fish hooks, and scissors conspire to bring about the waifish heroine's demise. Rendered predominantly in detailed black and white with the occasional jolt of full color on black (appropriate for a nightmare about returning to art school)! Treat yourself to this superfun book! |
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