Barbarella
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A voluptuous space adventurer rockets through a wild and wanton universe in Barbarella, the landmark French graphic novel that redefined the boundaries of sequential art and popular culture. Created by Jean-Claude Forest, this audacious work chronicles the intergalactic escapades of its irresistibly free-spirited heroine as she navigates bizarre alien worlds, encounters strange civilisations, and confronts outlandish dangers with equal measures of courage, sensuality, and wit. Barbarella stands as a towering achievement in the history of comics, a work that dared to present an adult, erotically charged narrative at a time when the medium was largely considered juvenile entertainment. Forest's sinuous, expressive linework and surrealist imagination transformed the space opera genre into something deeply subversive and undeniably glamorous — a combination that would go on to inspire generations of artists, filmmakers, and storytellers. This Grove Press English-language edition brought Forest's singular vision to an American audience hungry for boundary-pushing art, and the question it leaves any reader with is a simple but tantalising one: what universe could possibly contain a heroine this extraordinary?
Author: Jean-Claude Forest
Format: Paperback
Genre: Graphic novels
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A voluptuous space adventurer rockets through a wild and wanton universe in Barbarella, the landmark French graphic novel that redefined the boundaries of sequential art and popular culture. Created by Jean-Claude Forest, this audacious work chronicles the intergalactic escapades of its irresistibly free-spirited heroine as she navigates bizarre alien worlds, encounters strange civilisations, and confronts outlandish dangers with equal measures of courage, sensuality, and wit. Barbarella stands as a towering achievement in the history of comics, a work that dared to present an adult, erotically charged narrative at a time when the medium was largely considered juvenile entertainment. Forest's sinuous, expressive linework and surrealist imagination transformed the space opera genre into something deeply subversive and undeniably glamorous — a combination that would go on to inspire generations of artists, filmmakers, and storytellers. This Grove Press English-language edition brought Forest's singular vision to an American audience hungry for boundary-pushing art, and the question it leaves any reader with is a simple but tantalising one: what universe could possibly contain a heroine this extraordinary?