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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Fun Fact # 1: Graphic novels meet snooty french literature

Yesterday I went to our neighborhood branch of the Chicago Public Library looking for a copy of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, a graphic novel about her wacky family. I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years, but the category right next to graphic novel on the shelves seems to be snooty French literature (Beaudelaire, Camus, Genet, Proust, etc.) How great a juxtaposition is that? Who knew they had such a good sense of humor at the Library of Congress?
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Anonymous said...

My good friend Sylvia notes that Genet wrote to offend the snoots, not to be one and that the French were reading graphic novels years before Americans took them seriously, so perhaps the shelving makes sense after all.

Susan

July 12, 2007 at 8:25 AM

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