Marzi: A Memoir is a comic written by Marzena Sowa and drawn by Sylvain Savoia [fr]. It was originally published in French by Dupuis.

The English version is published by DC Comics/Vertigo Comics. Anjali B. Singh translated the text into English, with Joseph Howard Ketterer doing lettering.[1]

It is about the author's childhood in Cold War Poland.

The book's name is that of the main character and the story is told from her perspective.[2]

Reviews

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Publishers Weekly wrote that Marzi "subtly invokes a comparison between the place of the children in society and that of the oppressed under authoritarian regimes."[3]

Dariusz Vanhonnaeker, in Slavica bruxellensia, wrote that the perspective of the character was "Perspicace et spontané" (perceptive and spontaneous).[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Marzi: A Memoir". DC Comics. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  2. ^ Alfaro, Margarita (2014-12-07). Atlas literario intercultural. Xenografías femeninas en Europa. Calambur Editorial [es]. p. PT 54. ISBN 9788483593196. El telon de la representacion se abre con los ojos de Marzi, la protagonista que[...]
  3. ^ "Marzi: A Memoir". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  4. ^ Vanhonnaeker, Dariusz (2010). "Sylvain Savoia et Małgorzata Sowa, Marzi : 1989…". Slavica bruxellensia (in French). pp. 88–89. - Hosted by OpenEdition.org
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