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Acedia
Chili Com Carne,
2016
- 104 pages
- 18 x 24.5 cm
- black litho printing
- perfect binding
- edition of 500 copies copies
out of stock"A man named Daniel suffers from distortions in his visual perception due to a foreign body being lodged in his eyes socket. While the hospital staff keeps urging him to start a treatment, he begins to think his disease might be an opportunity to escape his normal life as his hallucinations allow him to have a new perception of reality. Daniel has now to decide if he wants to face his disease as a sign of his mortality or as an intensification of his own life."
"ACEDIA is the most recent book by André Coelho and is in fact his first solo graphic novel – his previous books were results of collaborations, namely with Manuel João Neto in Terminal Tower (Chili Com Carne, 2014). This is a book that in its form manages to sustain a balance between experimentation and tradition in comics, whilst presenting us with a paradox between its creative energy and the morbid atmosphere of its narrative. We can speculate whether this character is an alter ego of the author or whether some of its episodes are autobiographical but ACEDIA essentially belongs to the category of fiction – or maybe autofiction?"