Cartoons, it turns out, are tailor-made for the absurdities of old age, illness and dementia. In Chast’s devastating and sublime graphic memoir, the odd dramas and repetitive minutiae find perfect expression in her signature antic drawings as she describes helping her parents navigate their final years — from packing up their cluttered Brooklyn apartment to getting a seat at the “right” table in the nursing home. No one has perfect parents, and no one can write a perfect book about them. But Chast has come close.
書中的卡通仿佛是為年老、疾病與癡呆癥所帶來的荒謬情況而量身定制的。在查斯特的這本悲傷而莊嚴的圖文回憶錄中，描繪了她如何幫助父母度過晚年——從打掃他們凌亂的布魯克林公寓，到在療養院里為他們在“合適的”桌邊找到坐的地方，她那標志性的滑稽繪畫完美地表現了書中奇異的戲劇效果與重復的細節。沒有人擁有完美的父母，也沒有人能為他們寫一部完美的書，但查斯特很接近了。 來源:可可英語 http://www.ccdyzl.cn/read/201412/348761.shtml