Dublinés

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Dublines Spanish Comic. Following the footsteps of Joyce, Dubliners has its own making-of with the exhibition The Joyce Route, which can be enjoyed from September 4th to October 19th at the Fnac in San Sebastián and will continue touring different Spanish cities.Asturian Alfonso Zapico, winner of the 2010 Revelation Author Award at the Barcelona International Comic Fair, has immersed himself for 3 years in the creation process of Dubliners, a graphic novel centered on the life of James Joyce in which he traces the moments, conversations, hardships and adventures with which one of the great figures of the 20th century was built.An ambitious work, moreover, whose intricacies can be seen in The Joyce Route, an exhibition that is on tour, and which, after passing through Barcelona and Madrid, is currently in San Sebastián (Fnac Donostia, from September 4th to October 19th), and later, will visit Seville, Oviedo and Valencia.With an arduous work of documentation and its translation into cartoons, this story, sprinkled with multiple anecdotes, is also a captivating train journey through those cities -Dublin, Trieste, Paris and Zurich- through which this universal Irishman left his life´s trail.Illustrious authors parade through its pages such as Henrik Ibsen, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, H.G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valéry, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Sergei Eisenstein, Henri Matisse, André Gide, Le Corbusier and even Lenin.It was already clear that Zapico was not afraid of challenges, a priori complicated, when with Café Budapest (Astiberri, 2008) he decided to fully immerse himself in a fiction determined by the origins of the still unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict.Immediately afterwards, after being fascinated by the figure of Joyce, this author from the Mining Basin launched a methodical plan based on a trip through old Europe that allowed him to take countless field notes and develop a precise work of documentation, including multiple interviews with renowned scholars of Joyce´s life and work, which enabled him to give increasing brilliance and entity to the Dubliners project, which saw the light of day in April 2011, and is now being reissued.In reality, the approach to Joyce is twofold.In addition to the traveling exhibition, The Joyce Route will also be a travel journal that will be published next December, also by Astiberri, and that will recount the particular adventure of Alfonso Zapico in the gestation process of Dubliner and his journey through the cities he visited in the footsteps of James Joyce in his arduous process of documentation and research, which also took him to other cities such as Bilbao or Angoulême. tradeinn Techinn