The Golden Ass
Il romanzo di Apuleio nel graphic novel di Milo Manara
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol19.277Keywords:
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, Milo Manara, graphic novel, erotic comicsAbstract
For some time, the debt – not merely literary – that Western culture owes to Apuleius’ Golden Ass has been acknowledged. If the Metamorphoses, unlike other classical texts, have enjoyed a certain success in the landscape of the graphic novel, it is also thanks to the free rewriting composed by the Italian cartoonist Milo Manara (1945–). Devoted to erotic production, in 1999 he publishes his version of the novel, where he cuts, stitches together, and reinterprets many sequences of the novel. The contribution reconstructs the editorial history of the work and, by comparing it with its model, investigates its transmedial configuration through the analysis of structures, images, and language.
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