Saturday, December 11, 2010
Fun Home is not a comic book: it is a great book. The death of the father of a conventional Southern family is the alpha and omega of this lovely autobiographical arc joining the abandonment of childhood innocence with adolescence and its various awakenings. Opening the doors of the funeral in which reside Bechdel (FUNERAL HOME is the pun) to access the controlled world of this abuguesado clan whose parents, intellectuals with great concerns, abandon their dreams when they take over the family business. Under a generous layer of respectability, art deco, hieratic and Bricomanía lies a tension, advances the clock in a secret bomb that unstructured family environment, oppressive emotional gulag built on a conditional relationship. And as Alison grows, will Briend eyes to a less idyllic reality, and something pathetic in which tragedy and comedy walk hand in hand. 
The sincerity and humanity of this story provoke laughter, embarrassment, perplexity, always sincere emotion. This comprehensive internal monologue that contains deep and not always nice reflections on identity, repressed desires, sexuality, taboos and "family constellations." What we are and what we learn. Approached from a serenity that invokes waves of love and sadness, also fun. And even when literature becomes cumbersome for the protagonist in the axis on which explore their lives (and his father), expresses a direct and sincere feelings that we are so ashamed, those feelings that we strive to suppress by not going against the standard. Whatever the knot, do not try to undo it with silence and restraint. Make the implicit explicit. Live better.
Fun Home has been published in Spain by Mondadori Reservoir
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What sounded? Lhasa de Sela ~ Lhasa (Les Disques Audiogramme, 2009)
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