Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi - So You Haven't Read

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 15 мар 2022
  • Thinking of forging a book of your own? Then use promo code EXTRACREDITS to get 40% off of an annual membership to the ULTIMATE Worldbuilding Toolset, World Anvil! www.worldanvil.com/extracredits
    So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the Islamic Revolution. Following the author's real-life events and sharing parts of her childhood to remind people that "No country should be judged by its most extreme citizens".
    Support our channel by watching ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/soyouhaventr...
    --- Interested in reading it for yourself? Check it out at your local library! ---
    Buy Local: www.indiebound.org/book/97803...
    Amazon: amzn.to/3w2orUh
    Audible: amzn.to/3MPVzV5
    --- Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! ---
    We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: www.extracredits.site/extra-c...
    --- Want to support the people who make this show? ---
    Become a Patreon Member & Vote on future Extra History episodes! bit.ly/EHPatreon
    Or show off your fandom with our merch! extracredits.store/
    --- Want more Extra Credits? Subscribe and follow us on social media! ---
    Twitter: bit.ly/ECTweet
    Facebook: bit.ly/ECFBPage
    Instagram: bit.ly/ECisonInstagram
    Twitch: bit.ly/ECtwitch
    Website: extracredits.site/
    --- Interested in sponsoring an episode? Email us: extracredits@standard.tv ---
    ♪ Intro music: "Coffee Beans" by Mike Wuerth
    ♪ Outro music: "So You Haven't Read Theme" by Tiffany Roman
    #SoYouHaventRead #Persepolis #MarjaneSatrapi

Комментарии • 260

  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  2 года назад +58

    Thanks so much to World Anvil for helping us forge today's historical tale! You can use audience code EXTRACREDITS to get 40% off of an annual membership on checkout and help support the show in the process! www.worldanvil.com/extracredits

  • @safe-keeper1042
    @safe-keeper1042 2 года назад +781

    Reminds me of something the Norwegian king said (don't know the origin): "Never compare the best of your own country (or culture) with the worst of someone else's."

    • @james_t_huntley33
      @james_t_huntley33 2 года назад +25

      a great distinction to think about

    • @AmanKumarPadhy
      @AmanKumarPadhy 2 года назад +10

      What a beautiful stmt!

    • @FrancescoLorenzet
      @FrancescoLorenzet 2 года назад

      I feel like often liberals compare the worst of western colture with the best of any other

    • @Tokuijin
      @Tokuijin Год назад +5

      Thems are wise words

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew 11 месяцев назад +1

      I never knew

  • @BallsAnimal
    @BallsAnimal 2 года назад +313

    Persepolis is an absolute gem! This book is like, the one good thing that came from my highschool experience

  • @UnreasonableOpinions
    @UnreasonableOpinions 2 года назад +241

    I admire that Marjane was willing to insist that she is in the medium of comics. Too many people use the term 'graphic novel' as a special term for 'the GOOD comics', so they can continue to dismiss an entire medium as worthless without needing to contend with the works in the medium that they would look stupid for dismissing. It's a similar problem to the way that the entire fantasy genre has been so dismissed and scorned by too many people in literature that when they had to admit some of the books were obviously good they invented the non-genre 'magical realism' so they didn't have to admit they were being absurd.

    • @TheFiresloth
      @TheFiresloth 2 года назад +14

      Well, I think it's a bit of translation issues. In France, every graphic art stories are called "bandes dessinées", with comics only referring to American works. So for her, the distinction isn't present.

    • @Manu-pn3rj
      @Manu-pn3rj Год назад +10

      “magical realism” is a real subgenre of fantasical literature tho?? it’s huge in latinoamerica and isn’t a cop out genre for “good” fantasy

    • @UnreasonableOpinions
      @UnreasonableOpinions Год назад +2

      @@Manu-pn3rj Perhaps that's true there, but in Anglo-American publishing it is very common advice from agents for people publishing low-key fantasy to try and rebrand it as magical realism because it makes it easier to sell to publishers. Many authors speak about how the same manuscript will end up with the main printing house when labelled magical realism, but in the offshoot genre house if it's labelled fantasy.
      It's less codified than the comic book - graphic novel split, but it is real in publication and in review too. There is a frustrating insistence that magical realism is 'real' literature where fantasy is not, and it is demonstrably affecting what can and can't be published.

    • @kittykittybangbang9367
      @kittykittybangbang9367 Год назад +1

      @@UnreasonableOpinions It might have to do the fact that when a lot of people hear the word "comics", they usually think of superhero comics like Marvel and DC. Which were very campy and bizarre in their earlier years, and probably didn't get a lot of respect.

    • @Nzosaba_Matenge
      @Nzosaba_Matenge Год назад +2

      @@kittykittybangbang9367 they didn't, back in the day comics were considered what you do when you failed as writer.
      It was also a job taken by people who couldn't find work due to prejudice, that's why a lot of Golden and Silver Age writers/artists were jewish

  • @sammccullough1255
    @sammccullough1255 2 года назад +284

    Its comics like this are why comics/graphic novels should be required to be read in literature classes. I did not enjoy reading literature for school until I took an intro to comics class in college. I enjoyed reading comics and graphic novels, like Persepolis, Batman: The Long Halloween, Blacksads, etc. These comics should be required to read on a primary school level.

    • @tubanbodyslammer9125
      @tubanbodyslammer9125 2 года назад +12

      I was required to read this in high school

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 2 года назад +5

      In my last year of high school, the year 9 kids read Maus

    • @Archon3960
      @Archon3960 2 года назад +8

      - "Bu... but it's not true art!"
      - "It's the fusion of drawing and litterature! Boomer."

    • @ssj4jason737
      @ssj4jason737 2 года назад +2

      The one comic which should be required reading in my opinion should be Watchmen

    • @kittykittybangbang9367
      @kittykittybangbang9367 Год назад +5

      As someone with dyslexic, I feel like if comics/graphic novels were required to read in literature class, it would make it a whole lot easier for me and others.

  • @maxfieldjoyner5244
    @maxfieldjoyner5244 2 года назад +324

    I completely understand if you decide not to, but I think you should do “So you haven’t read Maus”

  • @mellow2646
    @mellow2646 Год назад +43

    I'm Iranian and very glad that you shared truth about my country with your people.

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato Год назад +2

      if anything, the US and UK overthrowing the Prime Minister in the 50s to be the catalyst for the 1979 revolution

    • @TheMilitantMazdakite
      @TheMilitantMazdakite Год назад +2

      And as a Zoroastrian convert, I say amen to that!

  • @whiplash984
    @whiplash984 2 года назад +236

    finally a book ive read

  • @JacquelineViana
    @JacquelineViana 2 года назад +90

    I love this book so so much! And the movie directed by Satrapi herself is incredible in its own way as well. That "Eye of the Tiger" scene? ICONIC.

    • @matturner6890
      @matturner6890 5 дней назад

      "Eye of d'taigurrrr, ah-ah-ah!"
      That was one of the more endearing, human things I've seen in a movie.

  • @Jian13
    @Jian13 2 года назад +56

    Oh, god, I forgot about Persepolis. It's a really good read, and that comes from someone that has a hard time reading anything not speculative fiction.

  • @abcdef27669
    @abcdef27669 2 года назад +82

    Whoah, a Comic Book analysis on Extra Literature?
    That was more unexpected than the Spanish Inquisition!

    • @xiahoupaul19
      @xiahoupaul19 2 года назад +9

      Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    • @duck8dodgers
      @duck8dodgers 2 года назад +3

      Bring out the... COMFY CHAIR!!!!

    • @olgaz2498
      @olgaz2498 2 года назад +2

      nobody expects the spanish inquisition

  • @hestiathena4917
    @hestiathena4917 2 года назад +51

    Everyone is rightly suggesting "Maus," but I'd love to see your take on Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home."

    • @JacquelineViana
      @JacquelineViana 2 года назад +3

      Fun Home is FUNDAMENTAL. Perfect. Iconic. Tô say the least.

    • @TrueRomancer04
      @TrueRomancer04 2 года назад +1

      Yaaas! I was fortunate to experience all three in one semester for a Comic Book Writing class in college. Plus Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor".

  • @NicholasHay1982
    @NicholasHay1982 2 года назад +65

    Persepolis is nothing less than modern masterpiece.

  • @midwinter78
    @midwinter78 2 года назад +38

    See also: A Beginner's Guide To Acting English by Shappi Khorsandi. Another entry in the young-Iranian-woman-flees-west-and-has-culture-shock genre.

  • @shawnheatherly
    @shawnheatherly 2 года назад +60

    Just happy to see comics and graphic novels being recognized as literature.

  • @benlewis5312
    @benlewis5312 2 года назад +12

    As a dyslexic youth who despised complex literature growing up, Persepolis is an absolute masterpiece

  • @DreadPirateRoberts121
    @DreadPirateRoberts121 2 года назад +20

    Persepolis is an awesome book, probably one of the best graphic novels I have ever read next to Alan Moore’s work

  • @sempersolus5511
    @sempersolus5511 2 года назад +15

    I think everyone who ever was a part of two different communities can relate to this story.
    Whenever you're with one, you belong to the other.

  • @MohammadAlAmineELMIR
    @MohammadAlAmineELMIR 11 месяцев назад +6

    Thank you for making an episode on one of my most favourite French Comics of all time, if you want something similar yet special in its own way, I suggest you check "L'Arabe du Futur" (The Arab of the Future) by Riad Sattouf who is a French-Syrian Comic Artist and Director, in his work he recounts his life during Childhood between Syria, Libya and France and all the challenges he went through. It's a really breathtaking journey of 6 volumes that I highly recommend for anyone, especially westerners who want a good fair glimpse into the reality of the Middle East's culture and mindset

  • @katrinka9781
    @katrinka9781 Год назад +7

    Persepolis is the first comic I actually read as like literature and wow, it was eye opening. I still love graphic novels or comics as a medium to this day.

  • @Greenhooves
    @Greenhooves 2 года назад +11

    Excellent book. A timely reminder that most citizens in every country just want to live their lives.

  • @ari6809
    @ari6809 Год назад +7

    i LOVED persepolis in high school i’m so happy you guys did an episode on it

  • @adwadawdwa9876
    @adwadawdwa9876 4 месяца назад +3

    1st graphic novel i read, love itt !!

  • @deemizzebra2209
    @deemizzebra2209 2 года назад +5

    I'm so glad you're covering Satrapi's Persepolis!

  • @giuseppers1956
    @giuseppers1956 Год назад

    I am happy to see you made a video on Persepolis. I have watched the film and hold it close to my heart as a beautiful movie of great significance of learning! Thank you!

  • @diyac9554
    @diyac9554 2 года назад

    I have always loved the book and the animated movie. I’m so glad you did a special episode on Persepolis!! Thank you!

  • @kitninglau8711
    @kitninglau8711 3 месяца назад +1

    I still keep whole Persepolis comics and the movie DVD since 2008!

  • @kennytannenberg5851
    @kennytannenberg5851 2 года назад

    😢 Sounds so sad, but too good to pass up. As always, thanks for sharing, extra credits!

  • @bobalinx8762
    @bobalinx8762 Год назад +1

    This opens the door to so many episode possibilities, I’m curious in what future episodes would be like discussing the themes found in various comics and manga.

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami 2 года назад +6

    Love the art man

  • @Edliren
    @Edliren 2 года назад +12

    Great book, really interesting to see the point of view of someone who's lived in countries with such different culturs. You guy's should do Maus too !

  • @chteretreeart
    @chteretreeart 5 месяцев назад +1

    The first Persepolis book I mandatory reading in my school and it was so interesting I had to read the rest and I’m o glad I did ! I also studied it when I first started getting into illustration and comics

  • @johnl946
    @johnl946 Год назад +2

    Beyond love this book. First graph novel I've read

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro 2 года назад

    this sounds amazing I must check this out

  • @stephenhall509
    @stephenhall509 2 года назад +2

    I need to watch this film!

  • @catsrunningcrazy
    @catsrunningcrazy 7 месяцев назад +1

    This was my favorite book when I was ~4-5
    I didn’t understand ANYTHING about it but I really loved the drawings and the main characters way of portraying her family :))

  • @josevega8253
    @josevega8253 2 года назад +3

    As a venezuelan busker wandering abroad, I feel so related to this :') And the movie rocks :3

  • @Kaiju-Driver
    @Kaiju-Driver Год назад +1

    I think my wife will absolutely adore this book thank you for the good find

  • @TheBakedPotato10
    @TheBakedPotato10 2 года назад +1

    Lol just had to read this for school its great to see you do this video

  • @royalteluis623
    @royalteluis623 2 года назад +2

    literally just finish reading this book. Its great

  • @aidanjackson5084
    @aidanjackson5084 6 месяцев назад +1

    4:14 - I knew I heard about this book somewhere! Pretty sure it was brought up in that McCloud book that was brought up, since I read that for an extracurricular class I took in college on Anime & Manga. It's definitely a good read, and one I'd recommend

  • @-NGC-6302-
    @-NGC-6302- 2 года назад +3

    What a coincidence - we’re just starting to get into Persepolis in school so I sent a link of this to my history teacher and we watched in class

  • @FinianFhomhair
    @FinianFhomhair 2 года назад +8

    No I haven't read Persopolis, but I have seen the movie, which is great!
    And I was actually lying before, I also read the comic.

  • @leafiddick2976
    @leafiddick2976 Год назад +1

    The bread swan was a real tear jerker, and I loved her relationship with her Uncle Anoosh.

  • @josedavidgarcesceballos7
    @josedavidgarcesceballos7 2 года назад +6

    This was good. Now, given the circumstances, can I recommend you to go over Mauss?

  • @WildKat25
    @WildKat25 2 года назад +2

    I read the book for a University English class and the movie was released that year, so our whole class saw the movie together.

  • @Caspar67
    @Caspar67 2 года назад +5

    Omg awesome I've always wanted to read this book!

  • @emiliobello2538
    @emiliobello2538 Год назад

    Loved it

  • @andromeda331
    @andromeda331 2 года назад +1

    What a great story!

  • @Suntas
    @Suntas 2 года назад +1

    I have seen the movie, but i really didn't know it was a comic first.
    I put that right into my shopping basket.

  • @Cpt_nice
    @Cpt_nice 2 года назад +15

    This and Maus should be mandatory reading for students during high school

  • @nicktwolf
    @nicktwolf 2 года назад +1

    After watching the video I went out and found copies of the two books. They are not what I expected, even after watching the video, and found them inciteful into her life. It paints a picture of life many of us ignore and don't want to see.

  • @blitszina2570
    @blitszina2570 2 года назад +21

    Since visual novels are covered on this channel (which is great to hear honestly cause those deserve to be discussed), how about covering the graphic novel maus?

  • @matthewclements3476
    @matthewclements3476 2 года назад +9

    Love this book so much.

  • @kennyblasberg3226
    @kennyblasberg3226 2 года назад +1

    Finally one I have actually read. In fact I’m actually doing a project on this book in my HS English class right now.

  • @misti-step
    @misti-step 2 года назад +1

    love the book and the movie

  • @asian2700
    @asian2700 2 года назад

    Hey! The book I had to analyse for my essay

  • @hmsquared8603
    @hmsquared8603 8 месяцев назад

    I read Persepolis in high school and loved it. It spoke to me as someone with a family history in the Middle East.

  • @lopamudraray8123
    @lopamudraray8123 Год назад +5

    Great video.....can you do one on Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Kapalkundala or Devi Chaudhurani please

  • @presidentbolbi1401
    @presidentbolbi1401 2 года назад +2

    I remember reading this in high school! Definitely a different time. Good book, though!

  • @sebbychou
    @sebbychou 2 года назад

    Excellent book and excellent movie

  • @RowdyVnson
    @RowdyVnson 2 года назад

    More classics please.

  • @pancudowny
    @pancudowny 11 месяцев назад +2

    "No country should be judged based on its most extreme citizens."
    No subculture should be--in regards to its members--either.

  • @johnleoist
    @johnleoist 2 года назад +2

    Thank you, I am absolutely going to check this book out. P.S. I appreciate the Rifts call out😉

  • @hilarymoonmurphy
    @hilarymoonmurphy Год назад +1

    One of the best graphic novels I ever read.

  • @dreamsofparis5535
    @dreamsofparis5535 2 месяца назад

    Persepolis is my all time favorite graphic novel series and I just love the 2007 movie!

  • @Mariojinn2
    @Mariojinn2 2 года назад

    Oh my God. I remember this. Damn

  • @zoso8459
    @zoso8459 2 года назад +3

    You should do Umberto Eco - name of the rose

  • @samuelkleber5717
    @samuelkleber5717 2 года назад +1

    Should you make a video about the Canudos War and António Conselheiro?

  • @j0an-07-arc6
    @j0an-07-arc6 2 года назад

    I'm planning on watching the animated film

  • @DragoSonicMile
    @DragoSonicMile 2 года назад +4

    Hmm... So, you haven't read Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes"?

  • @billybill1642
    @billybill1642 2 года назад +3

    I’ve read this book over 3 times

  • @PHRCpvh
    @PHRCpvh 2 года назад +1

    Do an episode on "MAUS", please, it's an awesome book.

  • @Animation-with-historyTM
    @Animation-with-historyTM 2 года назад +3

    I love this story very much please make more videos like this you got my support ❤ 🙏 💜 💕 🙌 💗 ❤ 🙏

  • @reyoscuro5381
    @reyoscuro5381 2 года назад +1

    You guys should do The Eternauta from Argentina. And fot extra history San Martin

  • @zoebarbee7241
    @zoebarbee7241 Год назад

    I’ve been watching summary and breakdown videos like this comparing them to the actual book and in less than ten minutes you’ve done better than all of the others I’ve seen. The animations definitely help I think but still

  • @carlosfallorina9919
    @carlosfallorina9919 2 года назад +3

    I fucking love persepolis. Any one see the trailer with the song eye of the tiger when you were a kid.

  • @immanuelsuleiman7550
    @immanuelsuleiman7550 2 года назад +5

    One of my favorite books. The movie is also wonderful.

  • @StarSpawnMusic
    @StarSpawnMusic 7 месяцев назад

    This book ripped out my heart, chewed on it, then spit it out on the ground. 10/10

  • @watersoluble606
    @watersoluble606 2 года назад +2

    "illigal punk cloths" sounds so cool.

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami 2 года назад +8

    I do agree with the massage of thus book all tho I don't live in a western country but I do found do interesting individuals on the internet who make assumptions about me just because iam a Pakistani people were shock to know the I support Ukraine this why I really like this

  • @pendragonxt3674
    @pendragonxt3674 2 года назад

    Persepolis is a great book and raises some very strong points about culture.

  • @ameelliott4085
    @ameelliott4085 2 года назад

    Thanks for exposing me to persepolis, I watched the movie after watching this video

  • @Dragonite43
    @Dragonite43 2 года назад

    I saw the movie. It's good!

  • @Talia_Arts
    @Talia_Arts 2 года назад +1

    Sadly can’t watch today but thank you for the disclaimer at the beginning!

  • @TainakaRicchan
    @TainakaRicchan 2 года назад +3

    Persepolis is one of the strongest films I ever saw.

  • @sneebysneeb
    @sneebysneeb 2 года назад

    holy crap we just started reading this in school what a coincidence

  • @ssj4jason737
    @ssj4jason737 2 года назад +1

    Since y'all are covering comics, one I'd love to see y'all cover is Sin City

    • @Soopahperry111
      @Soopahperry111 2 года назад +1

      oh man, haven't heard about Sin City in years lol

  • @patrickyoung1412
    @patrickyoung1412 2 года назад

    My English class just finished reading this book

  • @chantolove
    @chantolove 2 года назад +3

    We just finished reading this in class!

  • @fredleckie5880
    @fredleckie5880 2 года назад +2

    "Maus" next?

  • @JuanxDlol
    @JuanxDlol 2 года назад

    True, i havent read, BUT i do have watched the movie.

  • @thejungwookim
    @thejungwookim 2 года назад +2

    You had me at comic book 🤩

  • @mikeknight1778
    @mikeknight1778 2 года назад

    maybe maus could be a next entry in this extra credits series

  • @Tag573
    @Tag573 2 года назад

    This was uploaded the day that we finished our final projects on the book lmao

  • @maxi979
    @maxi979 Год назад +1

    I'm surprised nobody had made a austria and art school joke yet

  • @user-ji7kn3ul3v
    @user-ji7kn3ul3v 2 месяца назад

    I completely understand her reasoning, from my mother, I inherited severe ADHD/SPD and auditory issues.. my brain works differently then most people and so did hers in her honor (she passed) I’m creating a book about our neurodivergent experience

  • @nemonomen3340
    @nemonomen3340 2 года назад

    I read The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss, so I’m covered.

  • @ProjectXA3
    @ProjectXA3 Год назад

    So having watched part of the screen adaptation it is made very clear in the watching, the pronunciation is "suh-TRA-py" and not "SAT-truhpy"

  • @Elizabeththegreatest
    @Elizabeththegreatest Год назад +3

    I've read "Persepolis", and I thought it was great!

    • @Elizabeththegreatest
      @Elizabeththegreatest Год назад

      It also helped solidify my belief that theocracies are basically religious dictatorships!

    • @dallas9397
      @dallas9397 Год назад

      @@Elizabeththegreatest well, that’s what theocracy means