2016 | 1st Edition
You're Living For Nothing Now - Book 1 - I hope you´re keeping some kind of record. 2009-2013
You´re Living for Nothing Now ( I hope you´re keeping some kind of record) is André Príncipe´s take on the I-novel, a personal account about how it felt to be alive between 2009 and 2013. With its Leonard Cohen line´s title, Príncipe´s most ambitious work to date is organised in three books designed to be autonomous but that read best when together. The classical music score format of his earlier books is revisited and this time the images center on his struggle with marriage, living in Lisboa, spending time in China, Turkey, Japan, Paris, London and other places. The new layout alternates spreads assembled in minimalist comic book style with full bleed spreads, emphasising the narrative, cinematic nature of the images and ultimately creates a strong musical feeling, with pauses, andantes, adagios and crescendos, reading like a visual symphony. Influenced by sufi and buddhist ideas, You´re living for nothing now Book 1, 2 and 3 is a compendium of gestures, a modern mandala, an elegy of the ephemeral in the tradition of Ed van der Elsken, Henry Miller, and Jonas Mekas.
Title: You're Living For Nothing Now - Book 1
Edition: 1ª
Year: 2016
Country: Portugal
City: Lisbon
ISBN/ISSN: 978-989-99445-3-4
Width (mm): 220
Height (mm): 320
Cover type: Soft Cover
Bind types: Perfect Binding
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Content notes: The book contains two brief texts by Joshu (The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu) and Kobayashi Issa (Haikus).
