He cried for his dog Milka, for his lost childhood, for love, for the death of his mother, for not finding a nursery rhyme, for failing the exam, for going to a brothel, for going crazy.… «Tolstoy spent his life crying; as a child he had an inappropriate facility for crying ». And he continued to do so into adulthood. so he takes it Russian illustrator Katia Gushina portraying the famous Russian writer a specific biography in the middle of the comic, the picture book, and the collage.
100 reasons Tolstoy cried This is the obscene title of this volume edited by barrier seal, Presented today at 19:00 at the Pynchon & Co bookstore in Alicante. opening of the exhibition consisting of some pages of this volume
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author War and peace And Anna Karenina, Unlike his contemporaries, who learned to hold back tears, “crying never stopped”assures the author. And that’s what he wanted to collect in this book. Mix real and fictional moments who wants to justify the need to cry with and expressing emotionsthe ability to “be emotional and emotional”.
In this way, Gushina traces a specific biography of a hundred people. events in your lifeTo tell a biography drawn by the Russian writer and also mourned Translated into Spanish Fernando Otero.
“What he did defend your most emotional side and documented using tears as a value, based on what happened to him and what is evident in his works. Paco Linaresresponsible for programming pynchon bookstore. “There’s some of the editing, playing with the real elements and exaggerating a bit to give the other elements more dynamism.”
Exposure
Linares will attend the presentation ceremony together with the editor of Impedimenta, Enrique Redellwho was directly involved in the project made it the point of coming to Alicante openly to attend the event.
“When we received the book, we asked the publisher to do it. an exhibition with drawings and they loved the idea“So they have the work printed, framed, and it can be seen until the end of August,” he emphasizes. During the event, the book will be presented to the audience as well as the production. A journey through the author’s artistic work. In addition, they will do the timing Different parallel activities related to Tolstoy as well as illustration and comics during the exhibition.
more a dozen double pages exhibited in this example aimed at combining art and literature. «Tolstoy is one of the great Russian classics, and Katia is a great cartoonist, very famous in her country».
The current situation in Russia, prevents the author from participating in the presentation. However, Linares says they will attempt to connect via videoconferencing at the scene, “although we’re not sure if it’s due to a communication issue.” That’s why, the illustrator said, “he sent a video in which he described his working process and how he captured the drawn biography, and we’re going to put it on presentation.”
Katya GushinaBorn on the banks of the Volga River, he published his first book in 2017 after completing his graphic design training in Moscow. Wrote a year later Moscow-Vladivostok, A colorful sketch of his travels in Trans-Siberia. He currently lives in Moscow and is preparing for his next book. Gorky who wants to fly.
New programming line
This presentation wants to be accompanied by the exhibition the beginning of others, to mark the new order of bookstore events. “This will be one of the hallmarks of this new phase of the bookstore, because we do more illustrator exhibitions accompanied by didactics, talks and events complementary,” explains Paco Linares. “The goal is to make the bookstore a small exhibition touchstone in the city with high-end examples.”
Currently, they are already working on one photography exhibition and the other by a famous cartoonist front row will “give a lot to talk about”.