Martin Rowson staat bekend om zijn duister humoristische en vaak satirische verhalen, waarin hij regelmatig thema's als menselijke dwaasheid en maatschappelijke absurditeiten verkent. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door een scherpe geest en een unieke, vaak cynische, observerende toon die de conventionele wijsheid uitdaagt. Rowson's benadering van verhalen vertellen is zowel intellectueel stimulerend als viscerale boeiend, en nodigt lezers uit om met een wry glimlach ongemakkelijke waarheden onder ogen te zien. Hij bezit een unieke stem die diepe inzichten combineert met een compromisloos, irreverent perspectief.
Witty and tongue-in-cheek, over the past five years Martin Rowson's limericks and cartoons have retold the story of world literature, appearing each week in the Independent on Sunday. Now collected together, 'The Limerickiad' takes us from John Donne to Jane Austen, showcasing the author's reverence for texts.
...a jauntily irreverent but fundamentally serious take on a vastly influential political work. Publishers Weekly
This is a cartoon rendition of T.S. Eliot's poem with Chandleresque overtones.
With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England.
Nicht nur Goethe war von Tristram Shandy – der fiktiven Autobiografie eines Mannes, die auf fast 1000 Seiten kaum über dessen Geburt hinauskommt – begeistert, auch Sigmund Freud und Thomas Mann waren leidenschaftliche Sterne-Leser. Wie kein anderes satirisches Werk des 18. Jahrhunderts hat Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy die deutsche und die internationale Literatur beeinflusst. Martin Rowson hat diesen überbordenden Klassiker des hintergründigen Humors als kongeniale Graphic Novel umgesetzt. Nun erscheint sein Meisterwerk endlich auf Deutsch. Laurence Sternes 'Lies, lies, lies, lies, mein ungelehrter Leser, lies!' folgt nun auch ein 'Schau'!