Including an Explanation of the Afterlife

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold with riotous ’60s flair in Dino Buzzati’s phantasmagorical graphic novel, a story with “shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, [and] shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava” (Los Angeles Times).

There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city.

Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like a spirit,” through a little door in the high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way.

Where has Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders of life and death to find out.... Lire la suite