This comic is set in 1931 and the story is about Lieutenant Abel Robinson who serves in Somaliland Camel Corps. Hit by a sunstroke he wrestles with his own insane ideas. Thus he talks to a dead man and meets Kayin and other biblical figures. Hence the title, ‘To the west of Eden '.
Hugo Pratt, who has written both the story and made the drawings, knows again with minimal means to make an impressive comic. When Robinson begins to talk to a dead man and he talks back you know he has gone crazy. Still, Pratt twist the story so that you do not know who's real and who only plays a role in Robinson's imagination. It's a very psychological and intriguing story. This is reinforced by the fact that Pratt focuses on the characters in the story. Because it takes place in the desert, there is little decor, so as a reader you focus on the personality of the characters.
I find this comic, released in 1980, definitely worth reading and I can recommend it.
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Graphic novel
To the west of Eden at Catawiki
Hugo Pratt wikipedia
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