Dominique Goblet. (2017). Pretending Is Lying. New York Review Books.

Dominique Goblet. 2017. Pretending Is Lying. New York Review Books.

Dominique Goblet, Pretending Is Lying. New York Review Books, 2017.

Dominique Goblet. Pretending Is Lying. New York Review Books, 2017.

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   • bioText: Dominique Goblet was born in Brussels, Belgium, and studied illustration at St. Luke’s Institute. Involved from the start in the creation of the experimental-comics publisher Frémok, she published several books with them. At the same time she worked with the Parisian publishing house L’Association and published two books with them, including Pretending Is Lying. Artist, comics author, and professor of comics and illustration, she is also certified as an electrician, plumber, and welder.
     Sophie Yanow is a cartoonist and translator. She is the author of the autobiographical comic books War of Streets and Houses and What Is a Glacier? and of the Eisner Award–winning graphic novel The Contradictions.
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Now in paperback, a “tender, affecting” (NYTBR) memoir unlike any other, and the first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet.
In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white—Dominique Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents.
The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.

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   • source: Chantal McStay, BOMB
   • content: "Combining paint, ink, charcoal, and pencil, Goblet's mixed-media pages feel wet, textured, bleeding.... [Pretending is Lying is] part of a rich tradition of international graphic memoirs from Art Spiegelman's Maus to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis to Riad Sattouf's The Arab of the Future...We're invited to peer into the artist's mind.... It is a privilege to serve as [her] confidante, if only for a while..."
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   • source: L'Express
   • content: "Dominique Goblet spent twelve years putting parts of her life to rest--explicit snippets and fragments that condense her entire childhood and sketch a tender portrait of the adult she is today...Goblet hides nothing. And she forgives, weaving together, in gray and black and on yellowing paper, with strokes of her brush, a shocking kind of autobiography."
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   • source: Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor, The Best American Comics
   • content: "Precise and poetic, perceptive and unflinching, Dominique Goblet's comics cannot lie."
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   • source: Actua BD
   • content: "Faire semblant c'est mentir raises interesting and upsetting questions about our relationships with our loved ones and the way in which we build those relationships."
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     February 20, 2017
     This beautifully rendered, emotionally intense, and chronologically scattered reminiscence essentially questions the veracity of all autobiography. In her English-language debut, Goblet, an acclaimed comics pioneer in her native Belgium, juxtaposes her relationships with her alcoholic blowhard father, her distant partner, her abusive mother, and her combative daughter in a kaleidoscope of relationships turned into tugs-of-war. (In a short afterword, Goblet’s partner, Guy Marc Hinant, gets to the heart of this supposedly autobiographical work, suggesting that his own appearance in Goblet’s book does not constitute an actual appearance by him, but by an “avatar” that inhabits Goblet’s fictionalized truth.) Goblet changes her art style throughout—sometimes employing almost amateurish line scrawls, other times rich, mysterious, hazy color washes, and just about any style in between—to create a vivid and puzzling representation of emotional memory and the ways the brain retells stories to yourself in order to help you bear them.

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In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white—Dominique Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents.
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