Description:
Violeta Parra was a musician, a poetess, an all-round artist, and the soul of the popular tradition of Chile. The year 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of her birth. Violeta's life was painful and intense, devoted to art and love: for decades, she crossed America and Europe making people all around the world fall in love with the authentic folklore of her homeland. Virginia Tonfoni (writer) and Alessio Spataro (artist) tell her incredible story for the first time here in graphic novel format.My Thoughts:
This is a complicated life of a woman driven by a vision so strong that she is willing to sacrifice family, relationships, children along the way. The biography uses some of Violeta's own words, but since they are not translated into English, although the rest of the text is in English, I feel like I am missing a key insight into the understanding of Violeta from her own words. Because of that, even in the text skimpy genre of the graphic novel, I felt like there were large jumps in time, relationships, places that made it difficult to feel any kind of emotion for this person by the end. Her death then was not a tragedy or a waste because I did not get a sense of her importance to Chile and the world that is promised by the publisher's description.A digital copy provided by Net Galley and the publisher for an honest review.
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