by Posy Simmonds · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781911214380
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«Literary Life Revisited» is Posy Simmonds's satirical comic, published by Penguin Random House in hardcover (112 pages, in English).
Panels and comic strips in which Posy Simmonds satirizes the literary world: writers, readers, editors and the pretensions of the craft. This edition brings together material originally published in 2003 and adds forty pages featuring the series Rick Raker and Dr Derek, two characters who try to set the profession straight by opposite means.
Aimed at comic readers and those who enjoy satire of the literary world.
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drew feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.
