The Spouter-Inn

26. Persepolis.


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That night I stayed a very long time in the bath. I wanted to know what it felt like to be in a cell filled with water. GOD (sitting next to the narrator, a young girl, as she takes a bath): What are you doing? My hands were wrinkled when I came out, like Grandpa’s.

Marjane Satrapi was ten years old at the start of the Iranian Revolution, and

her comics memoir Persepolis explores what it
was like to grow up in that environment. It’s a story of the Iranian
Revolution, which began in 1979, but it’s also the story of one individual
life in a time of great crisis, moving into the Iranian diaspora. Chris and
Suzanne discuss this personal story of revolution, how a child’s understanding
of events can be useful for introducing topics to readers, and the
difficulties of talking about comics on podcasts.

Show Notes.

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis.

[Bookshop.]

Happy Nowruz!

Haft sin, the seven items

beginning with S.

Art Spiegelman: Maus.

Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics.

The 2500 year celebration of the Persian

Empire.

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Other works mentioned by Marjane Satrapi:

Embroideries, Chicken with
Plums.

Marjane Satrapi on her new film Radioactive, about Marie

Curie.

A conversation with Marjane Satrapi and Art

Spiegelman.

Emma Watson interviews Marjane Satrapi.

Next: Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron.

[Gutenberg.]

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