Overview
A graphic Grand Hotel of our dreams, desires, and nightmares – and a Christmas Carol like no other.
Klimowski is a visual genius; his gaze is always poetic, erotic, startling and compelling.
He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid.
Edifice is an incredible piece of art... Sure to be one of the best graphic novels of 2025.
It is his mysterious graphic novels where he has arrived in the uniquely poetic world of the cine roman where the fantastic and the everyday collide so richly and in which there seems no end for him to further gloriously explore.
Comfortingly macabre, and unravelling at its own mesmeric, seductive pace, Edifice is a captivating visual treat, a sinister social comedy of errors if not terrors and a puzzle-game/trick played on and for you. This is a purely pictorial extravaganza you will either love or hate, but should not ignore. (PS. I loved it.)
Edifice is an intriguing, thought-provoking exploration of the human condition that will resonate with fans of literary and psychological horror.
Andrzej Klimowski’s Edifice is a wintry dream lingering on the verge of conscious explanation... a beautiful book that stirs what lurks beneath, making resonance rather than reason its reward.
At the heart of the dream city of Engelstadt stand the tall storeys of an ancient apartment block, home to a nightmare labyrinth of corridors and secrets. Christmas is coming, but the mysterious disappearance of one of its tenants causes a cast of characters (or suspects?) to be assembled before us. An elderly aristocratic widow plays the piano; a young mother disciplines her hallucinating son; a photographer pursues creative experiments under the magnetic spell of the moon. And meanwhile, as a dark cloud threatens to envelop the city, and caped crusaders (or marauders) wander its park, there is a film screening to attend. The eccentric Professor will surely solve the enigma on Christmas Eve… Or will he? A pan-European Pandora’s Box of narrative Russian dolls and Chinese boxes, Edifice builds into an Expressionist graphic vision of our archetypal, metamorphic Shadows. Whether or not “an allegory of some sort” (as one of these characters claims), Andrzej Klimowski’s masterpiece of symbolic form is certainly one of the strangest Christmas stories you will ever read. “If you look carefully, you will see it.”
- | Author: Andrzej Klimowski
- | Publisher: SelfMadeHero
- | Publication Date: Nov 14, 2024
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781914224256
- | ISBN-10: 1914224256
