Michael Strogoff – The Tsar’s Courier
Serie
Serie Number2
Format21x29.7 cm, color hardcover
ISBN9788836270910
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Attention: the book is written in Italian
Price € 22,50
Michael Strogoff – The Tsar's Courier
A captain of Tsar Alexander II's couriers is charged with delivering a secret message to Grand Duke Dmitry, brother of the sovereign. To do this, he will have to cross all of Siberia, reaching as far as Irkutsk. A mission to which the fate of the whole of Russia is linked, threatened by a Tartar revolt. Thus begins the journey of Michael Strogoff who, amid dangers and ambushes, will try with great audacity to complete his task. To illustrate this classic by Jules Verne, together with The violators of the blockade - another work by the father of science fiction - is the master Franco Caprioli. Two transpositions in which each panel is a work of art.
Born in Mompeo, in the province of Rieti, and lived in Rome, Franco Caprioli (1912 - 1974) initially devoted himself to painting and then moved on to illustration and comics, collaborating mainly with «Il Vittorioso», «Topolino» (giornale) and «Il Giornalino». An extraordinary artist with a noble soul and a very personal and refined trait, known for his characteristic "pointillism", to which many of the masters following him are indebted. A profoundly innovative author, whose works reflect his great love for the sea combined with his passion for ethnology, archeology and prehistory on which he documented himself for a long time throughout his life.
Among his most memorable works are the story of the courier of the Tsar of Russia, Michael Strogoff, and that of the captain of the sailing ship Delphin narrated in The Violators of the Blockade, originally published in «Il Giornalino» in the 1970s and now re-proposed in a single volume. Two great works by the French writer that come to life in the master's splendid drawings, in a color hardcover edition that enhances their incredible artistic value.
«Caprioli does not translate Verne, he reinvents it... the narrative language is absorbed and transformed by the graphic one and the story is returned to us and revealed in images of astonishing beauty».
Claudio Nizzi
