Author:Pablo Auladell,Angel Gurria
Paradise Lost, Milton’s epic poem, charts humanity’s fall from grace and the origin of the struggle between God and Satan, good and evil, life and death. In the aftermath of the Angels’ devastating defeat in the war for Heaven, Satan determines to seek his revenge. Meanwhile, Adam and Eve have newly awakened in the Garden of Eden …
First published nearly 350 years ago, Paradise Lost has now been reimagined by the Spanish artist Pablo Auladell. His astonishing artwork portrays the complexity and tragedy of one of the great stories of all time. His bleak and surprising imagery captures the lyricism of Milton’s original for a new audience, and is a masterful tribute to a literary classic.
[It is] truly stunning… Scenes in the first canto which recount Satan’s fall without putting a single word on the page are achingly beautiful… As well as being a brilliant introduction to a classic text it can also be a deft reminder of Milton’s original majesty and a perfect accompaniment to its counterpart.
—— Fran Slater , Bookmunch[Auladell] adds vigour to a tale that can feel remote, and underlines the rich strangeness of a myth that is grand, cruel and beset by contradiction.
—— James Smart , GuardianAuladell combats this natural tendency of the eye by preserving Milton’s poetic language. I often found myself reading and re-reading the same sentence three to four times in order to fully extract meaning out of every word. This slowing down allowed me to take in the artwork in a way no other comic book has ever accomplished.
—— QuietusThis is a thoughtful and brilliantly strange way to rethink a classic.
—— Tim Martin , Sunday TelegraphPablo Auladell’s art is a stunning piece of work which captures and reinterprets Milton’s original…. Deeply thoughtful, eerily beautiful and quite astonishingly atmospheric.
—— David V Barrett , Fortean TimesA lovely, complex, elegiac book.
—— Claire Allfree, 4 stars , MetroThe perfect marriage of sparse but beautiful prose with elegant and effective imagery.
—— BookmunchWyld … uses her signature oblique style to excellent effect in conjuring up a child’s world of everyday nightmares.
—— Katherine Hughes , GuardianIf you have never read a graphic novel before, this powerful and moving example is the perfect place to start.
—— Sephanie Cross , LadyPoignant and rather perfect.
—— Claire Black , ScotsmanSumner’s illustrations are an evocative accompaniment to this melancholy, funny, moving tale.
—— PsychologiesLyrically written, […] Sumner’s artwork complements Wyld’s restrained style beautifully.
—— Neel Mukherjee , IndependentHere’s hoping Father Christmas is an Observer reader and buys it for me.
—— Alex Preston , ObserverA testament to the mind of a child and how it survives the world around it and a remarkable comic book in tapping into that transformative experience.
—— Christine Marie , Bleeding CoolCommunicates elaborate ideas in deceptively simple ways
—— Antonello Sticca , Total PoliticsWonderful graphic novel.
—— Arifa Akbar , IndependentThe storyline is exciting and well thought out to give a wide overview of the suffrage movement. I was very pleasantly surprised.
—— Lattice , GuardianA seamless blend of historical fact and fiction ... The illustrations are full of energy and expression.
—— Jacqui Agate , Independent
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