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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb |  | Author: R. Crumb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 1508
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 1
ISBN: 0393061027
Dewey Decimal Number: 222.1105209
EAN: 9780393061024
ASIN: 0393061027
Publication Date: October 19, 2009
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Product Description
Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: From Creation to the death of Joseph, here are all 50 chapters of the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible’s language, “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions,” that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible.
Now, readers of every persuasion—Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers—can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb’s Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph’s embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretation that have often obscured the Bible’s most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of Biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a “kind’ve depressed guy who doesn’t strike you as physically courageous,” and his bother, Esau, “a rough and kick ass guy,” to Abraham’s wife Sarah, more fetching than most woman at 90, to God himself, “a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard.”
As Crumb writes in his introduction, “the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself.” Crumb’s Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.
Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: Best Adaptation from Another Work, Best Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist.
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 Eye-opening July 26, 2010
R. Schimpf (San Francisco, CA United States)
The concept here is deceptively simple -- a graphic novel that includes every word of the book of Genesis. But nothing about Genesis is easy or simple, and R. Crumb brilliantly reveals the complexity that makes this a magnificent, essential, inconsistent, troubling, and gorgeous cornerstone of our culture. I've read the Bible as a believer and as an academic. This version of Genesis still had much to teach me about this extremely important text. Quite simply, nothing is left out, and everything is open to new interpretation. Buy it.
Understanding the Book of Genesis June 24, 2010
K. Croswell
Never been much of a bible reader but always a fan of R. Crumb. Anyway, I couldn't put the book down. I was engrossed in the story and the illustrations made the story so much more enjoyable and provided a depth and understanding of the story that greatly complemented the words. After a while, the story got so wild and unreal that I had to stop and get my actual Bible to compare and to my surprise I found that R. Crumb's Book of Genesis is factually accurate to the real Bible. What a story!
Fantastically creative mind! June 21, 2010
S. Brooke Golightly (Tulsa, OK USA)
Robert Crumb was almost before my time. I remember Mr. Natural from when I was a child, but it wasn't until I became older that I truly appreciated his real genius. I thought this book would be a cheeky volume of the Book of Genesis. Actually, it's not. Crumb delved into the bible and delivers something wholly unlike anything you've seen before. The drawings are delightfully 100% Robert Crumb, and the substance is horrifically accurate. I really enjoyed reading this from front to back!
Graphic Fun May 31, 2010
David L. Brown (Twin Falls, Idaho USA)
Excellent comic book for adults. The sex was fantastic.
Showed it to a Christian friend. He thought the pictures were bad - evil. I told him the creation is all about sex just like this comic Bible shows.
A powerful and memorable new look at Genesis May 16, 2010
roger vlitos
I have been a fan of R. Crumb's work since his earliest published comics. He has always taken a maverick view of society, individuals, trends and events, and has never appeared to compromise his visions, in spite of as much criticism as praise over the years. An Art critic called him the "Breugel of our age".
He could equally be called the Jonathan Swift or H.L. Menkin. His work can make you laugh and escape. It can also make you reflect more deeply on subjects you thought you had fathomed.
One of his first so-called "psychedelic" Zap comics bore the legend "Caution: For adult intellectuals ony". This book of his illustrated Genesis bears a simliar ironic warning 'Adult Supervision Recommended for Minors'. He might also have stipulated "Readers who think they know the Bible - Beware! Its not set in the sunny rose garden you were led to believe in sunday school".
I confess to have been so affected by this book I have had to put it down for long periods and steel myself before picking it up again. But that was not because of any wayward interpretation on his part, but due to the fierce form of the original to which he has apparently been faithful. There is no bowderisation in this book, no smoothing of rough and uncomfortable content. It is shocking at times, but not because his vision is profane, but because this book purportedly conveying the "wisdom of a desert people" is so bleak.
If there are elements of satire it is only of the Classics Illustrated genre of comic where 'War and Peace' might have once appeared in 32 pages. I think this is a great book, a move towards a more serious side than his earlier and more palatable "classics illustrated such as 'Boswell's Life of Johnson'. There are times when he highlights the stilted form of the original such as who 'begat' who, or the lists of names of prominent chieftans which a series of well drawn cariactures that show realistic looking nomads with faces like weathered walnuts.
I could not see any hint of anti-semitism in these cariactures - something that he has been accused of in the past in spite of the fact that his wife Aline is Jewish and his sexual appetite clearly runs towards sterotypical variations of strong Jewish women. Rather the attention to detail is superb, the costumes, artifacts and contexts for the drawings. It is a great achievement.
Lovers of Bob Crumb should buy it and add to to their collections. There is something noble and epic about his effort. It is also brave when one thinks that wars have been fought over differing interpretations of this archaic sacred text. Perhaps Crumb's great achievement here is that he puts that fact in context.
Roger Vlitos.
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