![]() ![]() And, Satrapi puts the medium to clever use, combining political history with memoir writing to narrate the tale of a nation that is now stereotyped for its fanaticism and terrorism.ĭescended from the last Emperor of Iran, Satrapi was brought up in a middle-class Iranian family by communist parents. In that sense, Satrapi’s graphic novel is more than just a memoir, Persepolis is a Bildungsroman-in-comic-strips that traces the psychological and moral growth of the Iranian-born French graphic novelist from youth to adulthood. The former narrates the childhood of a 10-year old in war-stricken Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, and the latter tells the tale of her return to Iran after the Islamic Revolution when she attends college, marries, divorces and then later defects to France. ![]() ![]() ![]() Satrapi’s novel is divided into two parts, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, tells the tale of a once wealthy and powerful nation, obliterated and laid to waste by decades of war and tyranny. Persepolis, the ancient capital of the First Persian empire founded by Cyrus the Great, is what the title of the book refers to. ![]()
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