Misery of Love by Alagbé, Yvan
Misery of Love by Alagbé, Yvan

Misery of Love

Colonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author's Yellow Negroes and...
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Author: Yvan Alagbé
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Misery of Love by Alagbé, Yvan

Misery of Love

$89.99 $47.29
Misery of Love by Alagbé, Yvan

Misery of Love

$89.99 $47.29
Author: Yvan Alagbé
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Colonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author's Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.

In Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé continues his unflinching interrogation of race and family in modern France.

The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is reluctantly spending time with her relatives for a funeral. Alagbé seamlessly glides between narratives of the family's past and present, all haunted by the legacy of France's colonial subjugation of Africa.

Alagbé works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as "a sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life.... I believe that life is not damnation but grace."

Told through time shifts that echo Richard McGuire's Here, Misery of Love is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France's best contemporary graphic novelists.

Author: Yvan Alagbé
Publisher: New York Review Comics
Published: 07/29/2025
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781681379180


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2025

About the Author
Yvan Alagbé was born in Paris and spent three years of his youth in West Africa. He is a cofounder of the publishing house Amok, which later merged with the Belgian publishing group Fréon to become Frémok, now a major European graphic novels publisher. He is the author of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. He teaches at Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator of French literature. He has translated works by writers such as Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, and Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as the noir fiction of Jean-Patrick Manchette and Thierry Jonquet. He is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born in Manchester, England, he lives in New York City.
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