![]() Her father is an engineer her feminist mother marches in demonstrations against the shah Marji, an only child, attends French lycée. Marji, born like her author in 1969, grows up in a fashionably radical household in Tehran. Her protagonist is Marji, a tough, sassy little Iranian girl, bent on prying from her evasive elders if not truth, at least a credible explanation of the travails they are living through. ![]() Like Spiegelman’s “Maus,” Satrapi’s book combines political history and memoir, portraying a country’s 20th-century upheavals through the story of one family. ![]() It’s no coincidence that one of the most provocative American takes on Sept. All over the world, ambitious artist-writers have been discovering that the cartoons on which they were raised make the perfect medium for exploring consciousness, the ideal shortcut - via irony and gallows humor - from introspection to the grand historical sweep. Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” is the latest and one of the most delectable examples of a booming postmodern genre: autobiography by comic book. PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi | Review first published May 11, 2003 ![]()
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