Not great like the first Persepolis, but still good.

I can't and won't like a story where author tries to show how their sufferings led them to use drugs or How their "endurance" lead them to where they are. No Marjane Satrapi, I do not have sympathy for those playing victim card. Period!!!

This is how I think, I might be wrong when I say this but I will say it anyways, ups and downs are part of life. Like literally everyone's life on this planet called Earth. Of course, few are born with privileges, others are not but yet portraying yourself as a victim when all you had to do was to stay strong for a bit.... Nah not something I can admire or appreciate.

I have seen this in many autobiographies where author tries to gain sympathy by making a checklist or enumerating the problems they face like how tough their life was. And I want to say to them, well hello Earth to you, that's how it is. Life sucks. For most of us. Still we carry on. You are not the only victim of life. Life happens to everyone. There are people who have suffered a lot and yet choose not to go wrong way in life coz yes that's what people do. The reason why I don't pick up autobiographies Coz I hate reading these sob stories.

Maybe I missed something that clearly many seems to be empathetic towards but this book just made me feel so angry that I thought of DNFing it but I didn't as usual because I just don't DNF.

It was painfully agonizing to keep on reading how she suffered coz well she didn't have enough will power. I just don't get the whole drama. Sorry.

I just love Marjane Satrapi. What a fantastic read! I've never been a fan of graphic novels but I'm a huge fan of Satrapi's. I have to admit I didn't like Persepolis 2 as much as Persepolis but that didn't prevent me from enjoying it a lot.

3.5 stars.

Loved this volume as much as the first! It sounds bad, I know, but I really liked the way Marjane told her story. The art was not very intricate, but it was perfectly in tune with the story, and the characters spoke to me. I could see bits and pieces of the communist regime that my parents and grandmother told me about in Marjane's shock when confronted with the situation in Tehran on returning home. The feeling of fear and hiding and living your life behind closed doors was similar to what my family has described to me over the years about the communist period. It was sad to read about so many lives lost in vain, or about men treating women like objects and telling them what to do in all aspects of their lives, but, just like Marjane's family and friends, there have always been and will be people of both sexes who will stand up for what's right. That gave me hope... All in all, Marjane's a great storyteller and a great artist, and I loved both Persepolis volumes!

I loved it because it is great, and at the same time hated it because it is a reminder of my own fucking reality

To je strip, ki mu pri vsakem branju dodam še eno ali dve zvezdici več. V bistvu je za 10. Kljub temu, da je nastal pred skoraj 25 leti, je še vedno aktualen.

Even more harrowing than the first one. Marjane is alone for . . . well, the whole book. Physically for some of the time, but mentally and emotionally for all of it. Being sent away, trying to survive in a strange country and deal with being a teenager, is incredibly difficult. At one point she talks about being a stranger in Austria, and now a stranger in Iran. Her parents don't recognize her at the airport. She has no idea what to do with her life. There is freedom outside of Iran, but she is constrained by not belonging there. She supposedly belongs in Iran, but there is no freedom. It felt claustrophobic to me reading about it, I can't imagine how it was for her! She goes through a deep depression, even attempts suicide, falls in love with someone she barely knows, makes mistakes, but also learns and grows in a way I hope that I did when I was her age . . . but probably didn't.

In this graphic autobiography, the author gives us her coming of age story. It opens with her arrival at 14 in Vienna, sent there alone by her parents to keep her safe from the Iraq war against Iran and the Iranian Revolution. All did not go well, with Marjane never finding her niche, always an outsider, until she nearly dies while living on the streets. At this point, the 18 year old Marjane returns to Tehran, only to find she does not fit in there either. After getting a degree in graphic arts and a divorce from an ill-suited marriage, Marjane finally takes her freedom and leaves Iran for good for France.

I did not find this as engaging or even as interesting as Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Perhaps the lonely, angsty teen and young woman were just not as enchanting as the child.

'Persepolis' ist ein autobiographischer Comic, der bereits vor 20 Jahren veröffentlicht und 2021 neu aufgelegt wurde. Die Autorin, geboren und bis zu ihrem 14. Lebensjahr aufgewachsen im Iran, erzählt ihre Familien- und damit auch einen Teil ihrer Lebensgeschichte.

Zuerst aus Sicht des Kindes, das sie mal war, schildert sie die Auswirkungen der Iranischen Revolution 1979. Was sich zuerst wie ein Befreiungsschlag anfühlt, wird schnell zu Unterdrückung - nicht nur von Frauen(rechten), sondern von allen Personen, die sich kritisch äußern. So muss Marjane Satrapi mehr als einmal miterleben, wie ihr geliebte Menschen weggenommen und ermordet werden.

Mit 14 verlässt sie ihre Heimat und muss sich ganz allein in Wien ein neues Leben aufbauen. Dass dieses Vorhaben mit etlichen Herausforderungen verbunden ist, kann man sich gut vorstellen. Satrapi nimmt die Lesenden mit auf ihre Reise der Identitätssuche, die durch Sehnsucht, Schuldgefühle, Rassismus, Trotz und vieles mehr geprägt ist.

Zum Glück hat mir ein Freund dieses Buch geschenkt, denn ich habe es an zwei Abenden verschlungen, mich in Satrapis Erzählweise verliebt und mich auch ein bisschen verloren in ihren Bildern, ihrem Humor und der Tragik, die stets vordergründig ist. Trotz der Zerrissenheit ist es ein Buch voll Liebe und Widerstand, das in mir große Bewunderung für Marjane Satrapi und ihre Familie hervorgerufen hat.

Lest unbedingt dieses Buch!

Übersetzt von Stephan Pörtner.

CN: Kr1eg, Polizeig3walt, F0lter, T0d, M0rd, Verg3waltigung, Fatsham1ng, Ras$ismus, Able1smus, Su1zid

The only emotion this graphic novel really causes is that you realise how much better the first persepolis is.

Acest volum e mult mai personal, intăm în sufletul lui Marjane. O însoțim în călătoria sa de căutare și adaptare prin Austria, dar și în trecerea de la o adolescentă pierdută la statutul de femeie căsătorită într-un Iran devenit stat islamic aflat în coflict.

Mi-a plăcut foarte mult tonul sincer, dar ironic al autoarei, pe care o consider o adevărată eroină.

Consider că această serie e un must read, prezentând o istorie care nu ar trebui uitată și care din păcate e încă realitate multor oameni.

"Ca să instruiesc, trebuia să-nțeleg tot. Începând cu mine: eu, Marji, femeia. M-am lăsat lansat atunci în cartea preferată a mamei."

"Îmi venea să intru-n pământ. Unde erau ai mei să mă ia în brațe, să mă consoleze?"

"De când o văzusem pe mama, nu mai aveam nevoie de nimeni."